hobble in English

noun
1
an awkward way of walking, typically due to pain from an injury.
he finished the game almost reduced to a hobble
2
a rope or strap used for hobbling a horse or other animal.
Soon thereafter ride participants saw her with the short lead rope and hobbles in place, learning a lesson in discipline!
verb
1
walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury.
he was hobbling around on crutches
synonyms:limpwalk with difficultywalk lamelymove unsteadilywalk haltinglyshambletotterdodderstaggerfalterstumblelurch
2
tie or strap together (the legs of a horse or other animal) to prevent it from straying.
He untacked and unloaded the horses, then hobbled them and set them loose to graze.
noun
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Use "hobble" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "hobble" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "hobble", or refer to the context using the word "hobble" in the English Dictionary.

1. Mistakes can hobble a deal from the start.

2. So I hobble out, barely able to stand.

3. I hurt my foot, and had to hobble home.

4. My knee was stiff and painful, and I could only hobble.

5. The country's massive debt could hobble the party's social - spending plans.

6. Sophie got herself to the mirror, and found she had to hobble.

7. The number 19 was a cattle hobble and nine rods.

8. 22 It's a pity for me to see an old woman hobble away.

9. Hobble and limp describe the uneven movement of someone whose legs are injured.

10. The Boy hurt his foot, so he had to hoBBle dong.

11. The old man hobble along with the aid of his stick.

12. Tariffs and other needless restrictions hobble trade among all South Asian countries.

13. It's a pity for me to see an old woman hobble away.

14. Even though his leg was in a plaster cast, he was able to hobble about.

15. The swelling had begun to go down, and he was able, with pain, to hobble.

16. I hurt my foot while getting off the bus, and had to hobble home.

17. She turned her ankle on the rocks and had to hobble back to camp.

18. Some of the runners could only manage to hobble over the finishing line.

19. With love, everyone will do their best to help you as you get into a hobble.

20. Now, here it is: What could I do, with this old timber I hobble on?

21. Since CCTV carried out eliminate the last system, many documentary programs have fallen into a hobble.

22. It would be easier for them to hobble to town a broken leg a broken pantaloon.

23. It would be easier for them to hobble to town with a broken leg than with a broken pantaloon .

24. India's inexorably growing power crisis is a bottleneck that threatens to hobble its overall growth rate.

25. This may hobble the bull in the future. But first it needs to regain its virility.

26. But if you could see me, you'd think me but a sorry object to hobble to an altar.

27. Hey, if you don't have the stones to hobble yourself, find someone who'll do it for you.

28. His left side seemed one single long unpleasantly stretched scar, and he really had to hobble on his two rows of legs.

29. A mental block is formed due to the effect of the learner's negative mental being and is, to some extent, supposed to hobble the learner's acquiring progress of the objective language.

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31. The ancient Egyptians used objects from their everyday life as symbols. A rod stood for one, a cattle hobble was ten, a coiled rope was a hundred, a lotus flower was a thousand and so on.

32. I'd told the boys I had a touch of thrombophlebitis, blood clots in the veins in my feet, and was afraid about tomorrow's climb,(Sentence dictionary) not that it would hobble me but would get worse when we came down.

33. Accipitrine: of, like or pertaining to falcons and hawks accismus: in rhetoric, pretending to refuse something accite: to cite; to summon acclinate: sloping upwards acclivity: upward slope accloy: to hobble with a horseshoe nail accolade: curved architectural moulding; vertical line joining two musical staves accolent: neighbouring accollé