Example Sentences

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Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Four years would pass before Miles found another saxophone player who let him ease so limberly into the future, restoring his crown as the dark prince of the jazz revolution.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2018

There were other passengers who also got off at San Rosario, but they either slouched limberly over to the railroad eating-house or the Silver Dollar saloon, or joined the groups of idlers about the station.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

It was not Frank Johnson, but Swan Vjolmar who climbed limberly down from the seat without speaking and turned toward the back of the wagon.

From Sawtooth Ranch by Bower, B. M.

Upon each a vine rose, limberly and with soft leaves in the stone, from base to capital.

From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving