How to Use the limit in a Sentence

the limit

noun
  • The sky is the limit for this team.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 9 May 2026
  • The sky’s the limit for this one.
    — Ella Cerón, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • From there, the sky was the limit.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • And thanks to one man's dream, the sky is no longer the limit.
    — Josh Sanders, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • And the limit is just before death.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of down and out, look up, and the sky’s the limit.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • There will be movies, series — the sky’s the limit.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The very short lifetime code, the sky's the limit in terms of speed.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Alim said the sky was the limit for her honorary niece.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • As long, after all, as Bryant’s body isn’t the limit.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 May 2026
  • There’s the body scanner, but kids can’t go through and some agents think the limit is by height.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The sky’s the limit—or rather, the ceiling is—for your kitchen backsplash.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Nobody knows yet what these two have planned for the wedding, but the sky’s the limit.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But, most lavender Zone 7 is the limit.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That was the limit of his abilities.
    — John Burek, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • But as Goslawski notes, the sky remains the limit.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But the sky's the limit and there's going to be many, many more records being broken for him.
    — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • But when real estate turns over, the limit doesn’t apply.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Sky’s the limit, and so it’s been a pleasure to continue to play with him, to be around him.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Like the limit in Mean Girls, that apartment does not exist.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 June 2026
  • As for the best spots, pick anywhere; the sky is literally the limit.
    — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Votes exceeding the limit will not be counted.
    — CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Four years later, the limit was reduced to just one foreign recruit.
    — Joshua Hunt, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Things happen, but the sky’s the limit for UConn football.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Gwynne Shotwell is one of the few executives for whom the sky is not, in fact, the limit.
    — Arianna Huffington, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The sky’s the limit with that guy, obviously.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • But the sky is, literally, the limit for self-flying cars.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Leaders who feel the turn and never build it will discover the limit of feeling.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • In a Southern household, the limit does not exist.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In a Southern household, the limit does not exist.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025

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