How to Use limbed in a Sentence

limbed

adjective
  • Each day my body grew more loose-limbed and intuitive.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Both are at least 6-4 and long-limbed, which can slow down exchange times.
    — Dallas News, 13 June 2022
  • Each woman is nearly six feet tall, thick-limbed, cast larger than life.
    — Drea Brown Zócalo Public Square, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
  • In that role, Goggins is intense and self-absorbed but also loose-limbed.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Elfman turned loose-limbed for the length of the number to go full-on sinister-Cab-Calloway.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Loose-limbed and quick-witted, Brooks once sold a hundred and twelve bottles of Advanage in a day.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • It was bathed in the light of a TV, and the little girl, longer-limbed now, was curled in a chair staring at an iPad.
    — Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Clements is more loose-limbed and funny as Roland, while Benson’s Roland is reserved and thoughtful.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2021
  • The train crash delivers a multi-limbed — not to mention man-eating — alien onto Lillian.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • The centersaurus – tall and long-limbed – roamed the land for a century, dominating basketball games with size and power.
    — USA Today, 22 Apr. 2021
  • This suggests that a role in the development of this region for hox genes is the ancestral state, and was present prior to the limbed vertebrates diverging from fish.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In light of the film’s milestone, Vulture called up Shalhoub to talk about his memories of playing a multi-limbed evil scientist.
    — Iana Murray, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
  • But there’s also a limit to Herry’s latest performance piece, which feels too sketchy and loose-limbed to sustain our attention, or else relies too much on histrionics to do so.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Saguaro National Park, whose two parcels sit on either side of Tucson, is home to almost 2 million of the tall, multi-limbed cactuses for which it is named.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • From there, evolution slowly introduced limbed vertebrates, land-dwelling creatures, and eventually humans.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
  • By contrast, the movie’s Gawain, played with loose-limbed, charming incorrigibility by Dev Patel, is untested, unknown, and a bit of a ne’er-do-well.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Oh, and a demonic former doctor played by Udo Kier fathers a child who emerges from the womb a monstrously big and long-limbed baby, also played by Udo Kier.
    — Elizabeth Alsop, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Physical, quick, long-limbed but with excellent coordination and technique, the Slovenian has been destined to be compared to Haaland ever since.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The underdog pick is Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun), an ingenuous arriviste who, long-limbed and blunder-prone, provides much of the show’s comic relief.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The team narrowed down the DNA responsible for the cloaca and showed that there were equivalent regions in mice, as well as fish that are more closely related to limbed vertebrates, like the gar.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025

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