Verb (used without object) : to limber up before the game. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : She tried to limber up her wits before the exam. From Dictionary.com.
A man who really reads a book and reads it well, reads it for moral muscle, spiritual skill, for far-sightedness, for catholicity -- above all for a kind of limberness and suppleness, a swift sure strength through his whole being. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference
But the limberness is not the point of it, the kundalini is. From Wordnik.com. [Enlightenment is not a Competitive Sport] Reference
Mistherd rose and cautiously flexed limberness back into his muscles. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Air and Darkness]
After I have sung to you and fought against your disgusting limberness. From Wordnik.com. [ALTERNATIVE MEMORY] Reference
Yoga focuses on the grace, strength and limberness of the whole physical and mental being. From Wordnik.com. [Doubts About The Candidates] Reference
But what they lacked in limberness and energy they made up for with patience and enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [Sympathy] Reference
Granted, it does take SOME degree of limberness to spread your legs for any duration of time, but come on. From Wordnik.com. [i think] Reference
Now, it looks like I might actually reach retirement age, despite various medical problems and a lot aches, pains, and non-limberness. From Wordnik.com. [Planning for the Future « Hyperpat’s HyperDay] Reference
A moment later they were past him and continuing their chase, slipping through the kill-slot with the easy limberness of basin lizards. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
At the tips of each leg (which was four centimeters of coils) were thirty tiny wheels which enabled him to maneuver with a semblance of limberness. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
My heart is, you know, the biggest challenge is just my lank-itude, my, you know long limberness and, you know, trying to make that look as snappy as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Chuck: Q & A with Zachary Levi - Pink Raygun.com] Reference
She managed the matter somewhat stiffly, suppressing a groan at the effort, and then for an hour she was gently pummeled into limberness as the pony followed Van. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
With Fred quiet, the writers on my side started to share their thoughts about science fiction, but then, with the limberness of a teenager, Fred vanished under the table. From Wordnik.com. [A Meeting of the Minds] Reference
He made his way to the door with a shade of the limberness of his youth, and opened it, catching the stranger in a "listening" pose that told Sam the man had been trying to catch the sound of his own approaching footsteps. From Wordnik.com. [Omnibus]
The anatomical wonder appealed to them so little that they gave up the seats that the kind Slav had saved for them, and went out, rather sickened by such limberness, to wait the gong of the night life in the seclusion of the print room. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
At seventy-two, McCain has displayed only the aerobic capacity to perform high-degree-of-difficulty acrobatic position-changing without breathing hard, but also the limberness required to bring both feet at once all the way to his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Kleiman: One Interview, Two Gaffes] Reference
The Chinese Therapy Balls help improve limberness and dexterity. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Summary Box: Drop in home sales hurts stock market] Reference
Statham can do gravitas without losing his limberness and flexibility. From Wordnik.com. [Blog updates] Reference
The last movement has the feel of a Scottish Rondo, a pre-Mendelssohnian limberness. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Students of the human frame say that they never saw such a wealth of looseness and limberness lavished upon one person. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
I was prepared for the fire to thaw him into limberness, and had I found him straightened somewhat I should not have been surprised. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
It is good for your body because the sorts of movements it includes are for the benefit and limberness of each and every part of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
There is a certain vital limberness and ductility in them, so that upon their essential identity more or less of mutation is ever supervening. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference
Democratic party of whose violations of the Constitution, corruption, and dangerous limberness of principle they have been the lifelong denouncers. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference
Practicing yoga or tai chi 20 minutes each morning can help reduce stress, improve strength, limberness, provide better immune function and lower blood pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines] Reference
The robots also have manufacturing uses, aided by Toyota's research into a wire-operation system to replace hydraulics and "adding limberness and speed to the motion.". From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog] Reference
She was tethered close by, and had been apparently absorbed in scratching her forehead with her left hind foot in a way that said much for the limberness of her youthful joints. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
Washington, Oct 24: Practicing yoga or tai chi 20 minutes each morning can help reduce stress, improve strength, limberness, provide better immune function and lower blood pressure. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Francis was very limber - but it was the limberness of whalebone, gum-elastic, steel springs and gutta percha - limber because tough - easily bowed, but impossible to be broken or kept down. From Wordnik.com. [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference
October 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Practicing yoga or tai chi 20 minutes each morning can help reduce stress, improve strength, limberness, provide better immune function and lower blood pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
When Elizabeth was old and had a wrinkled face and black teeth, she was one day discovered practicing the dance step alone, to the sound of a fiddle, determined to keep up to the last the limberness and agility necessary to impress foreign ambassadors with her grace and youth. From Wordnik.com. [For Whom Shakespeare Wrote] Reference
Of course, it’s also a covert way to check for limberness and fluidity of movement. From Wordnik.com. [Auditioning for the Met] Reference
He made his way to the door with a shade of the limberness of his youth, and opened it, catching the stranger in a 'listening" pose that told Sam the man had been trying to catch the sound of his own approaching footsteps. From Wordnik.com. [Born To Run]
'fo' de fahmin days wuz over, but I sees wid my eyes an 'I years wid my year, same ez enny er dese yer young bucks w'at goes a gallopin' roun 'huntin' up devilment, an 'w'en I sees de limberness er dese yer cullud people, an' w'en I sees how dey er dancin 'up, den I gits sorter hopeful. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings] Reference
Balls help improve limberness and dexterity. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Summary Box: Drop in home sales hurts stock market] Reference
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