What's the difference between hobbling and walking?

Hobbling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobble

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 12.55pm GMT 37 min: Doyle is trying to carry on but hobbling around like a car-park attendant (they always hobble don’t they?
  • (2) The US dabbled ineffectually in helping the rebel cause, hobbled by uncertainty over the groups it was dealing with.
  • (3) Come the time, I will gladly hobble down the road with a trolley, nurse half a bitter for two hours, and spend whole days in front of the TV.
  • (4) Liverpool running more under Jürgen Klopp than with Brendan Rodgers Read more With Kolo Touré hobbling at the end of the 1-0 win, albeit with cramp according to the former Ivory Coast international, Klopp could be without all four of his established central defenders at Exeter City on Friday in the FA Cup third round.
  • (5) Trapattoni raised hopes that Simon Cox would be fine despite hobbling off with an ankle injury in added time.
  • (6) Despite the spat between Apple and Adobe, which means that the iPad is hobbled by its inability to play Flash content, it's still a wonderful device for consuming media.
  • (7) "I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently .
  • (8) Gathering more support – or hobbling the opposition – for marriage equality because you've shamed critics into silence, or over-spent them into irrelevance may not be the prettiest way to win a human right, but save your concerns about looking good for the wedding.
  • (9) Their effort to amend the Fisa Amendments Act was ultimately unsuccessful – something they warned would hobble Congress' oversight functions.
  • (10) Updated at 8.20pm GMT 8.15pm GMT 28 min: Pablo Zabaleta is still hobbling in the wake of that enthusiastic challenge for which Danny Welbeck was booked earlier.
  • (11) Mention a pre-1914 designer like Poiret, of hobble-skirt fame, and he smiles: "Fashion was a little naive in those days, both the clothes and the way people talked about them.
  • (12) A Walcott cross came to Giroud and he smacked home and then, after Ramsey hobbled off, the England man made it comfortable, finishing a neat pass from the thus far muted Joel Campbell.
  • (13) But my love for you is full of guilt and regret, sometimes heavy enough to hobble my steps.
  • (14) Zidane hobbled back against Denmark, who were too strong against 10 and a half men, and won 2-0.
  • (15) The visitors had another goal ruled out for the substitute striker Stefano Okaka who then had to hobble off injured in injury time.
  • (16) Republicans and White House officials fear that the currency issue is a “poison pill” designed to hobble trade negotiations in a way that would prove unacceptable to other countries negotiating the giant Pacific trade bill.
  • (17) Operation Inherent Resolve, as the US-led anti-Isis campaign was clunkily named, has demonstrated how so many Middle Eastern problems are inherently unresolved, in the words of a recent study by the Rusi thinktank , and are hobbling collective efforts.
  • (18) Lakers fans can take solace in the fact that the Spurs really didn't blow out the Lakers, they merely put an end to a hobbled, lurching mockery of what their team was supposed to be.
  • (19) I always remember this guy running because we are all running and he was hobbling and I thought he'd hurt his leg … We were running to the fence, thinking they couldn't get past this bollard, and this guy just went that way and, well, the [police vehicle] just flattened him, and went right over him.
  • (20) Taylor will appeal and that is the right thing for him to do," the smartly-dressed Collins said, as amputees – some hobbling on crutches – streamed past him.

Walking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Walk
  • () a. & n. from Walk, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (2) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (3) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
  • (4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (5) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (6) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (7) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (8) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
  • (9) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
  • (10) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
  • (11) He was unable to walk alone at 2 years of age and developed seizures and intermittent ataxia at 5 years of age.
  • (12) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
  • (13) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
  • (14) Walking for pleasure was generally the most common physical activity for both sexes throughout the year.
  • (15) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
  • (16) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
  • (17) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.
  • (18) By the isolation of overlapping cosmid clones and 'chromosome walking' studies from the H-2Kk gene, we have obtained cosmid clones encoding the H-2Klk gene from two separate cosmid libraries.
  • (19) All horses underwent a gradually increasing exercise programme consisting of walking and trotting beginning one week after the first injection and continuing for 24 weeks.
  • (20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.

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