Sentence examples for limb off from inspiring English sources

"As soon as you give the market anything to chew on, they are going to tear the limb off".

So dangerous was the work that in some factories, a machete was kept nearby -- if a worker's arm was mauled in the rollers -- they would simply lop the limb off and keep on going.

He took every limb off.

Mr. Coot (not his real name) sawed the limb off another neighbor's flowering crab apple when it dropped a yellow leaf onto his lawn.

His wife, Grace Maxwell, and I strive not to fill in the next words for him, as one should so strive, though in Grace's case that must take superhuman effort, still: a voluble Bellshill lass, she could talk every available limb off a donkey.

One Sunday afternoon in mid-October, Daniel Whalen was helping a neighbor saw a limb off a tree when the neighbor said something disturbing: state environmental officials had told him to stop drinking water from his well, and to stop cooking and showering with it, too.

"They burned the three men and chopped their limbs off with axes," he said.

Michael Stipe of REM once claimed that this record "tore my limbs off and put them back on in a whole different order".

It was a visceral, shocking, uncompromising and quite unprecedented introduction to an artist – as Michael Stipe of REM once recalled: "It tore my limbs off and put them back on in a whole new order".

Her influence has been hailed by the likes of the Smiths and REM, whose frontman Michael Stipe said Smith's debut album, Horses, "tore my limbs off and put them back on in a whole different order".

They can bite your fingers or limbs off... like a vice grip!