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How to use the word limbs in a Sentence?

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We have flight attendants who have been thrown into the ceiling and then back down several times, resulting in broken limbs. In the aisle, with unannounced turbulence, we had people who lost toes, or lost the ability to work, or sustained injuries that kept them off the job for years.

Sara Nelson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At that time, there were no activities like trauma recovery for them. So, amputees believed that once they lost their limbs and their legs, they have no future, they have no opportunity. So, I volunteered myself to give them confidence.

Mambud Samai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

pictures of life grinding to a halt decorating walls movement in dead motion limbs askew mouths stretched wide in motionless scream. art as we see it – feeling it’s another story. so does art imitate life or does life imitate A—R—T and where does it end – on cold walls before disinterested observers?

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

There are bodies with a rope around the neck, with hands tied, with broken limbs and with gunshot wounds. Several men had their genitals amputated, all this is evidence of the terrible torture to which the occupiers subjected the residents of Izium.

Oleh Syniehubov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They took pictures of broken bodies... close-ups of limbs, of burnt flesh, it shocks the conscience.

Luis Li

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We anticipate downed trees, limbs and powerlines. It is critical that motorists take this storm system very seriously and stay off the roads through the end of the event to give our crews the space needed to work, as the forecast has evolved, it has become more likely that a significant area of Georgia will experience icy conditions as part of the incoming storm system.

Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No tree limbs, no shingles, nothing like that.

Gertie Swatzell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My friends would be over at the house and my kids would be around individuals missing limbs or recovering from war wounds, just like I did. And this is what my kids grew up with. So this was the post 9/11 Special Operationsworld that we lived in and that my kids grew up in.

Jason Redman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of our veterans and their families have gone through hell -- deployment after deployment, months and years away from their families ; missed birthdays, anniversaries ; empty chairs at holidays ; financial struggles ; divorces ; loss of limbs ; traumatic brain injury ; post-traumatic stress. We see it in the struggles many have when they come home. We see it in the strain on their families and caregivers. We see it in the strain of their families when they're not there. We see it in the grief borne by their survivors. The cost of war they will carry with them their whole lives, most tragically, we see it in the shocking and stunning statistic that should give pause to anyone who thinks war can ever be low-grade, low-risk or low-cost : Eighteen veterans, on average, who die by suicide every single day in America -- not in a far-off place, but right here in America.

Beau Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Thankfully, I was alone when I got hurt, so it only affected me and, thankfully, it detonated a short distance in front of me... which largely saved my life and saved my limbs.

Read MoreHe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The gunfire was close with officers hearing tree limbs breaking from the rounds being fired in the wooded lot between the officers and Ewell Street.

The Dyersburg Police Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We drove under a tree that had fallen over and there was burning limbs and it was like urgent and scary to get out.

Sabrina Kent

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If one of our limbs were taken out or if our stomach was slashed open, we would probably be incapacitated, but infected cicadas, despite the fact that a third of their body has fallen off, continue to go about their activities like mating and flying as if nothing happened. This is really, really unique for insect killing fungi.

Matthew Kasson.Read

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A 70 mile-an-hour wind will be enough to take down trees and limbs that obviously interact with power lines and so, that will happen, and people should be prepared for that.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our ultimate goal is to have prosthetic limbs that the person views as a part of their body.

Paul Cederna

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Micah Herndon said. Race organizers invited him to the New York Marathon the day after the Boston Marathon even though his time didnt qualify him. In Boston, Micah Herndon had four miles left to finish the race when Micah Herndon legs gave out, and Micah Herndon ended up crawlingon Micah Herndon hands and knees to the finish line. MARINE WHO CRAWLED ACROSS BOSTON MARATHON FINISH LINE FOR FALLEN COMRADES INVITED TO RUN NYC MARATHON In Afghanistan, he was in a convoy in 2010 when one of the vehicles hit an IED, killing in Marines Mark Juarez andMatthew Ballard, and Rupert Hamer, a British journalist. He served multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP I run in honor of them.They are not here anymore. I am here, and I am able, i am lucky to still have all my limbs. I can still be active. I find fuel in the simple idea that I can run. Some can not.

Micah Herndon

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

They had powerful, large skulls and massive jaws with large, sharp teeth, their limbs were in the form of fins.

Daniel Tyborowski

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We believe that an understanding of this' salamander-like' regenerative capacity in humans, and the critically missing components of this regulatory circuit, could provide the foundation for new approaches to repair joint tissues and possibly whole human limbs.

Virginia Byers Kraus

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I run in honor of them, they are not here anymore. I am here, and I am able. I am lucky to still have all my limbs. I can still be active. I find fuel in the simple idea that I can run. Some can not.

Micah Herndon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My whole world just collapsed, my legs stopped working. My limbs were very clumsy. I was in excruciating pain, screaming the house down.

Carly Jayne Barton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The evolution of sauropods isn't quite as straightforward as we once thought, it appears that sauropodomorphs evolved four-legged postures at least twice before they gained the ability to walk with upright limbs, which undoubtedly helped make them so successful in an evolutionary sense.

Jonah Choiniere

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Using a tool that looked like very large scissors, he extracted THE ENTIRE HEAD, UPPER TORSO, MORE LIMBS AND AN ANTENNAE.

Katie Holley

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

My wonderful neighbors saw me outside. They kind of knew the situation, so they started grabbing limbs as I was cutting them off and helped move them to the street. So very thankful to them.

Mehrvarz Yavaliollah

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We may actually have triggered a plastic reorganization in the cortex by re-inserting a representation of lower limbs and locomotion in the cortex, these patients may have been able to transmit some of this information from the cortex through the spinal cord, through these very few nerves that may have survived the original trauma. It’s almost like we turned them on again.

Miguel Nicolelis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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