verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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Swarf looked pleased and hobbled around the courtyard, laughing to himself.
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He finally bowed to the inevitable after 61 minutes, when he was visibly hobbling around .
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At 10 o'clock I hobbled around the kennels while the kennel girl watched Toby.
off
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The referee hobbled off with a pulled muscle.
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Brave, she folded her parasol, hobbled off to the right, leaving the path.
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Then his replacement, 34-year-old Cyrille Regis, hobbled off injured after 13 minutes.
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Then they hobbled off home to wait for better days, in awe of the wonders of modern technology.
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The 23-year-old was on as early as the eighth minute when Andy Myers hobbled off after taking a knock.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A sprained toe hobbled Clemons for most of the week.
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Aunt Sophy hobbled slowly across the room on her crutches.
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Laurel hobbled out of the taxi on crutches.
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Mistakes can hobble a deal from the start.
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My knee was stiff and painful, and I could only hobble .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After practice I watch him walk painfully over to the bleachers, wrap up his knee and hobble out.
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Brave, she folded her parasol, hobbled off to the right, leaving the path.
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He watched a young man hobbling up a trail, one foot torn away at the ankle.
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I hobbled upstairs and lay on the floor to get my shorts off.
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I was all too soon up and about, hobbling with a stick.
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Mr. Waddicar the caretaker was hobbling across the landing, like an old lollipop man frustrating traffic.
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Old men crossing the room, men with bread crumbs in their pockets, foreigners, hobbling.
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The nights were growing darker, the corridor was very long, and far down its length something was hobbling, hobbling.