limb

Definition:
1. An arm or a leg; a similar part of an animal, such as a wing.
2. Having the type of limbs mentioned.
3. A large branch of a tree.

Use 'limb' in a sentence:

• 1. Characteristics in Short Limb Shear Wall Construction System and Its Application Studies.
• 2. Are you prepared to go out on a limb and make your suspicions public?
• 3. You got to find out where the shadow of the limb falls at midnight, and that's where you dig!
• 4. Her limbs were insubstantial, almost transparent.
• 5. The sad friends of Truth in this fable have gone up and down, gathering up Truth limb by limb still as they could find them.
• 6. No treatment was given to the control limb.
• 7. I tried to adopt a curled-up position to avoid damaging my limbs.
• 8. He rubbed his limbs vigorously to get the blood circulating.
• 9. In 1919, for example, a humpback whale with a pair of leglike appendages over a metre long, complete with a full set of limb bones, was caught off Vancouver Island in Canada.
• 10. He fell down the stairs, giving him paraplegia of the upper limbs.
• 11. We want to understand how limb design determines the energy costs of walking and running.
• 12. She was so tired, she could scarcely move her dragging limbs.
• 13. The workers saw off a limb from the tree.
• 14. She would be able to stretch out her cramped limbs and rest for a few hours.
• 15. Spinocerebellum regulates body and limb movements.
• 16. Even when a limb has been severed or cut off from the nervous system, the nerves that once serviced it remains alive and well.
• 17. This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.
• 18. They found that salamander regeneration begins when a clump of cells called blastema forms at the tip of a lost limb.
• 19. Patients exercised their atrophied limbs in the swimming pool.
• 20. S'pose we tackle that old dead-limb tree on the hill t'other side of Still-House branch?
• 21. Viewers will remember the dashing hero, Dirk, risking life and limb to rescue Daphne from the dragons.
• 22. The car was badly smashed, but he was lucky to escape with life and limb.
• 23. Explain, thou limb of Satan, or thy time is come!
• 24. They drown out Orpheus' music with the hideous roar of their howlings and their screamings and they tear him limb from limb.
• 25. At present the doctor is giving him daily massages to help restore the function of his limbs.
• 26. A limb was sawed off from a tree.
• 27. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
• 28. The same way cells that form the limb become more like muscle cells or skin cells, or the structures that become the limb.
• 29. It created a glowing centre of warmth that quickly diffused through my limbs.
• 30. They can see themselves going out on a limb, voting for a very controversial energy bill.
• 31. Bad rheumatoid arthritis deforms limbs.
• 32. The belly is the largest of the three parts of the body, but it has no limbs attached to it.
• 33. Afterwards he found a sunspot group which lived long enough to disappear from view on the western limb of the sun, to reappear on its eastern limb, and finally to regain its old position.
• 34. Go out and stretch your limbs.
• 35. I feel as if all my limbs are falling apart ( or are out of joint).
• 36. I tried to jump up, but I could not stir a limb, then I yelled aloud in a frenzy of fright.
• 37. There were no limb bones.
• 38. Looking around he perceived the feet, still hoppled together, hanging on a limb.
• 39. Combined with reduced blood flow, neuropathy in the feet increases the chance of foot ulcers and eventual limb amputation.
• 40. He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead.
• 41. His hard hands and sinewy sunburned limbs told of labor and endurance.
• 42. Lobsters can reproduce a lost limb.
• 43. The animal is able to stand up on its hind limbs.
• 44. The police were lucky they found him before I did. I would have torn him limb from limb.
• 45. Who took a ball, the vesicle, and he transplanted from the embryo, the ear region, to a limb.
• 46. She also used ice cubes to cool down the severed limb.
• 47. Shubin distinguished himself by leading an expedition to the Arctic, which uncovered the remains of a fish with a wrist-a creature with part fin and limb.
• 48. Trembling in every limb, Peter answered, "Yes!"
• 49. He can't fully control the limb.
• 50. The limbs swell to an enormous size.
• 51. Snake embryos, for example, sprout hind limb buds.
• 52. Do you see that Marionette hanging from the limb of that giant oak tree?
• 53. Much like a newt that has lost a limb, these mice will replace missing or damaged tissue with healthy tissue that lacks any sign of scarring.
• 54. It is often possible to see the vestigial remains of rear limbs on some snakes.
• 55. They spend several weeks each year undergoing intensive treatment which enables them to coordinate their limbs better.
• 56. Try to rest the injured limb as much as possible.
• 57. For a while, she lost the use of her limbs.