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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

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

His long spare arms swung limberly before a long spare body set upon long spare legs.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian