limb

[lɪm]

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.