LAME in a Sentence

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For LAME, below is one of 48 sentences:
Comrade Ostrinski was a little man, scarcely up to Jurgis's shoulder, wizened and wrinkled, very ugly, and slightly lame.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lame
 a.  moving with pain or difficulty because of injury; disabled so that movement is difficult or impossible
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  They were a ragged and ruffianly appearing crew, mounted on lame and heaving horses which obviously were in too bad condition to be used for more active service.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  Her sidesaddle was strapped on as sorry a mule as Scarlett had ever seen, a flop-eared lame brute, and Cathleen was almost as sorry looking as the animal she rode.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  Yes, thought Scarlett, sitting on the side porch in the pale November sunshine with the baby on her lap, he is one of Melanie's lame dogs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  When the time came for her to go home, Mr. Highcamp grunted a lame offer to escort her, looking down at his slippered feet with tactless concern.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
5  When finally the doctor left, he told him that he would have to lie quiet for two months, and that if he went to work before that time he might lame himself for life.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
6  Comrade Ostrinski was a little man, scarcely up to Jurgis's shoulder, wizened and wrinkled, very ugly, and slightly lame.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
7  He had travelled a long way, he wath in a very bad condithon, he wath lame, and pretty well blind.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
8  I had mumbled but a lame mass an thou hadst broken my jaw, for the piper plays ill that wants the nether chops.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
9  He was in some way afraid of them, he could not bear to have them look at him now he was lame.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  The new Achilles in him had a heel, and in this heel the woman, the woman like Connie, his wife, could lame him fatally.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  Captain Harville was a tall, dark man, with a sensible, benevolent countenance; a little lame; and from strong features and want of health, looking much older than Captain Wentworth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  I walked slowly, for I was almost exhausted, as well as lame, and I felt the intensest wretchedness for the horrible death of little Weena.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  Jo happened to suit Aunt March, who was lame and needed an active person to wait upon her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
14  One is lame, poor thing, he's got a crutch.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
15  Jove's daughter Venus is always dishonouring me because I am lame.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
Example Sentence:
1  Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
2  If you live with a lame person, you will learn to limp.
3  He sat down with his lame leg outstretched.
4  He is lame in the right leg.
5  The accident made him lame in the left leg.
6  He was aware that she was lame in one leg.
7  The lame man needs a stick when he walks.
8  A lame wing kept the bird from flying, it was in danger when winter was coming.
9  The lame man walked with an uneven gait.
10  She wore a rhinestone necklace with an excessively garish gold lame dress.
11  The production efficiency is lamed by the old machines.
12  A bullet lamed the soldier for life.