Lame Sentence Examples

He was lame for the rest of his days.

He muttered some lame excuse, feigning making an error.

Five sets of predatory eyes fell to her, as if realizing there was a lame lamb in their midst.

He was lame and of weakly health.

Above these, marine Rhaetic beds appear at intervals, notably near Lame, where they are succeeded by Lower Lias shales and limestones.

The assize town is Belfast, and quarter sessions are held at Ballymena, Ballymoney, Belfast, Lame and Lisburn.

About 1417 he became involved in a violent quarrel with his cousin, Henry of Bavaria-Landshut, fell under both the papal and the imperial ban, and in 1439 was attacked by his son Louis the Lame.

It is somewhat curious that some of those who claim Rabelais as an enemy of the supernatural in general have been the loudest to condemn this blemish, and that some of them have made the exceedingly lame excuse for him that it was a means of wrapping up his propaganda and keeping it and himself safe from the notice of the powers that were.

He must have gone lame, or worse " .

This drew all the children after him and he led them out of the town to the Koppelberg hill, in the side of which a door suddenly opened, by which he entered and the children after him, all but one who was lame and could not follow fast enough to reach the door before it shut again.

A Latin memoir of Tamerlane by Perondinus, printed in 1600, entitled Magni Tamerlanis scytharum imperatoris vita, describes Timur as tall and bearded, broad-chested and broadshouldered, well-built but lame, of a fierce countenance and with receding eyes, which express cruelty and strike terror into the lookers-on.

In 1864 he commanded a division of the 17th Army Corps in Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and before Atlanta, on the 10th of July, he received a wound which forced him to retire from active service, and left him lame for life.

When Louis the Lame died in 1445 his father came into the power of his implacable enemy, Henry of Bavaria-Landshut, and died in prison in 1447.

The Sicilian fleet under Ruggiero di Lauria defeated that of the Angevins at Malta in 1283, and 1284 in the Bay of Naples, where the king's son, Charles the Lame, was captured.

Virginia leaders, including Henry, were the first to urge the formation of a national government with adequate powers supersede the lame confederacy.

A man of small stature and unimpressive appearance, he was somewhat lame from birth, a fact which was used as an argument against his succession, an oracle having warned Sparta against a "lame reign."

Four sons had been born to Malatesta - Malatestino, Giovanni the Lame, Paolo the Handsome, and Pandolfo; but only the oldest and youngest survived him.

Also, the crowds are very lame, most being lifeless 2D cutouts that you can actually see are 2D!

When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

In his final weeks of office, far from being a lame duck, Bill Clinton is more popular than ever.

And just in case you think that's a thoroughly lame excuse, we're not talking about the Queen Mother.

It all seemed so ill-prepared, a kids ' pleasure trip up the river at last minute, how lame.

I'm not going to stand here and give you a list of lame jokes.

We thought he was fantastic at the time but now it all seems a bit lame.

Sonic, a 2D platformer being the star release game, sounds a bit lame to me.

Don't get me wrong, I think hurting animals is pretty lame.

Hemmo was the main danger on the left, several times skipping past some fairly lame defenders.

On the cover is a nice if somewhat lame, sepia tainted picture of Elvis.

Sir Rembrandt will miss the race after being found slightly lame and Spot the Difference has been pulled out as well.

Man, some rock'n'roll has got so lame nowadays.

This all makes New Labor's obsession with cultural industry seem rather lame.

I know the name sounds lame, it is supposed to!

A 17 hands Show Horse became lame in a hind leg.

But the mommy looks pretty lame so it's hard to cheer on anyone at all.

The former would become a lame duck Prime Minister; the latter would inherit a party riven by civil war.

At the age of eighteen months, however, he contracted polio, which would leave him lame for the rest of his life.

But we went to-day and the long sinews Of our elm were lame With wind that ran in the day's lost clues.

Maybe the thought of such lame activity brings a smug smile to your face.

The government remained in the hands of Cardinal Bakocz till his death in 1521, when the supreme authority at court was disputed between the lame palatine Istvan Bathory, and his rival, the eminent jurist and orator Istvan Verbdczy (q.v.), - both of them incompetent, unprincipled place-hunters, - while, in the background lurked Janos Zapolya (see John (Zapolya), King Of Hungary), voivode of Tran sylvania, patiently waiting till the death of the feeble and childless king (who, in 1522, married Maria of Austria) should open for him a way to the throne.

This was a lame way out of the difficulty, for the queen could only confer precedence within her own realms, whereas an act of parliament bestowing the title of prince consort would have made the prince's right to rank above all royal imperial highnesses quite clear, and would have left no room for such disputes as afterwards occurred when foreign princes chose to treat Prince Albert as having mere courtesy rank in his wife's kingdom.

When a horse has been overstrained by work the best remedy is a long rest at pasture, and, if it be lame or weak in the limbs, the winter season is most conducive to recovery.

I rode on a rough road, and fell off three or four times, and am now awfully lame!

While the film does keep adults and kids relatively entertained, it also drifts into both lame slapstick and sappy sentimentality.

But we went to-day and the long sinews Of our elm were lame With wind that ran in the day 's lost clues.

I know it sounds lame but I promise they are great!

You could wear an orange tie if you really want to "match" her- but matching is kind of lame.

Materials-Fabric selections include charmeuse, chiffon, liquid sequins, taffeta, tulle, organza, lame, and satin.

While it might seem a bit lame, your parents are there to help take care of you.

While some people might think that's lame, your school's after-prom party makes planning simple by doing the planning for you.

A candlelight wedding and ball gown will flatter a mature complexion and figure, but a tropical sarong over a gold lame t-shirt may be your perfect second marriage wedding dress - only you and your groom can decide.

The actor was reportedly banned from all Nobu restaurants for a couple of reasons, not least being his lame excuse for a tip.

At his sentencing, he apologized for his behavior, no lame excuses, no public relations spin, just a simple apology.

I first learned about this at the age of 12 as a young rider when my horse went lame one week before a very large horse show.

A sexy sweetheart neckline, fitted beaded bodice with a dropped waist will show off your fabulous figure in this metallic lame gown.

For that, he was killed, and now it is up to the heroes to defeat each of the six and restore peace to the world.Yeah, it's pretty lame.

The store inventory is limited to skins, guitars and characters, which is pretty lame since none of them are different from any of the previous Guitar Hero games.

You find yourself stranded on some foreign planet… stop me if you've heard this one before… and they've found yet another lame excuse to have all of the abilities Ms. Aran learned in the last game sucked away through mysterious forces.

Other times, when I thought my performance was lame, I got a better score.

The entire back portion of this swimsuit is exposed, save for a gold lame tie.

Find stretchy fabric belts to wear with chiffon, Spandex, latex, lame, and satin, all hot 80s looks that you'll love.

To create a gilded look, women may opt for sequined gold or silver mindresses or shifts, while men can create a bubbly look in a striking gold lame suit or a festive gold sequined tie on top of a white shirt and black dress pants.

Men can also choose from two deluxe costumes, one in shiny lame.

I said that dating agencies and events were lame and old school.

If you introduce yourself by saying hello, the person may think you are just another lame person trying to hit on him/her.

You've probably seen enough major films to know that special effects can easily run the gamut from lame and hokey to lavish and over-the-top.

The compression method they use, called LAME, is considered to create the highest quality MP3 clips.

As if to mask the lack of direction and movement in an already lame attempt at a story line, the music also seems to be one of the main selling points of the film.

Among many hospitals, the county hospital (5828), "open to the sick and lame poor of every country and nation," may be mentioned.

Conn O'Neill (c. 1480-1559), 1st earl of Tyrone, surnamed Bacach (the Lame), grandson of Henry O'Neill mentioned above, was the first of the O'Neills whom the attempts of the English in the 16th century to subjugate Ireland brought to the front as leaders of the native Irish.

He was shot in the leg, picked up by the English, and successfully treated, although he remained slightly lame.

The religious poem, Le Miroir de lame pecheresse was translated by Queen Elizabeth.

Fibonacci's series is a sequence of numbers such that any term is the sum of the two preceding terms; also known as Lame series.

In this battle Sigebert, the king of the Ripuarians, was wounded in the knee and limped during the remainder of his life - hence his surname Claudus (the Lame).

Many of the chief characteristics of the ancient Greek heroes are reproduced in those of the Teutonic North, the parallel being in some cases very striking; Siegfried, for instance, like Achilles, is vulnerable only in one spot, and Wayland Smith, like Hephaestus, is lame.

Like him, he is lame and an outcast for nine years; like him, he is brought back in time of need.

The united fleet was formidable rather in number than in quality; the battleships were of very unequal value, and the faster vessels were tied to the movements of many " lame ducks."

The principal towns are Antrim (pop. 1826), Ballymena (10,886), Ballymoney (2952), Carrickfergus (4208), Lame (6670), Lisburn (11,461) and Portrush (1941).

In the north a feeling of despondency overtook Congress at the "lame and impotent conclusion" of a campaign of invasion which was expected to terminate the war by the defeat of the Confederate army, the capture of Richmond and the immediate overthrow of the Confederacy.

Though lame and only of moderate stature, he won renown as a warrior, and became king on the death of his brother Gonderic in 428.

Otto II., the Lame (1229-1271), fortified several towns and bestowed privileges upon them for the purpose of encouraging trade.

There is also a rather lame wax museum; the less said about it, the better.

Belfast and Lame are the chief ports.

In 1315, the year after Bannockburn, Edward Bruce landed near Lame with 6000 men, including some of the best knights in Scotland.

Giovanni the Lame (Sciancato), a man of a daring impetuosity only equalled by his ugliness, had proved so useful a general to Giovanni da Polenta of Ravenna as to win in reward the hand of that potentate's beautiful daughter, known to history as Francesca da Rimini.

As the lame smith he reminds us of Hephaestus, and in his flight with wings of Daedalus escaping from Minos.

He is bound to admit that Christianity has been stated reasonably; against the moral teaching of Jesus he can only bring the lame charge of plagiarism, and with the Christian assertion that the Logos is the Son of God he completely accords.