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The phrase "a hobble" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a restriction or limitation, often in a physical sense, such as a way of walking that is impeded or hindered.
Example: "After the injury, he walked with a noticeable hobble that made it difficult to keep up with the others."
Alternatives: "a limp" or "a restriction".
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A hobble skirt.
Silva was hog-tied with a "hobble restraint".
He cut the tape on her legs and put a hobble on her ankles.
He has pins in his knee from an operation and walks with a hobble.
She makes a telling, counterintuitive point, batting away the notion that a steely heel is a shackle or a hobble.
She lost her rhythm, grimaced, then slowed painfully to a hobble, dropping to the blue track with more than half the race left.
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A hobbling captain would not be much help.
El Salvador's first two goals came against a hobbled Hamid.
Not everyone in the industry considers Microsoft a hobbled giant.
So the Cardinals turned to a hobbled Benes.
Murray ousted a hobbling Gilles Simon, who had turned his right ankle, 6-3, 6-3.
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