CRIPPLE in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for CRIPPLE, such as:
1. She was crippled in a car accident.
2. In later life she was crippled with arthritis.
3. The crippled peasant remained for some time looking after them.
4. I had nearly holed my cripple, to finish off that charming trip.
5. But it's very hard for Sir Clifford, you know, crippled like that.
2. In later life she was crippled with arthritis.
3. The crippled peasant remained for some time looking after them.
4. I had nearly holed my cripple, to finish off that charming trip.
5. But it's very hard for Sir Clifford, you know, crippled like that.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CRIPPLE
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cripple
v. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
n. someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple.
2 Now for the sinister cripple who lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. Clair.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
3 It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
4 Everybody as knowed about Mester Craven knowed there was a little lad as was like to be a cripple, an they knowed Mester Craven didn't like him to be talked about.
5 And yet, wretched cripple as I made myself by this act of homage to Dora, I walked miles upon miles daily in the hope of seeing her.
6 I had nearly holed my cripple, to finish off that charming trip.
7 He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to everybody, for another ten years.
8 This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly have had himself drawn by the lightning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
9 The crippled peasant remained for some time looking after them.
10 But it's very hard for Sir Clifford, you know, crippled like that.
11 He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the underground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.
12 She wanted to go back to Wragby, even to Clifford, even to poor crippled Clifford.
13 To a walker practised in such places a difference between impact on maiden herbage, and on the crippled stalks of a slight footway, is perceptible through the thickest boot or shoe.
14 In fact, in the whole of that floor there was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, it seems, made his home there.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
15 A lucky long shot of my revolver might have crippled him, but I had brought it only to defend myself if attacked and not to shoot an unarmed man who was running away.
Example Sentence:
1 I have no muscle left in my leg; it's like a true cripple leg.
2 She has gone from being a healthy, fit, and sporty young woman to being a cripple.
3 She was crippled in a car accident.
4 In later life she was crippled with arthritis.
5 The second phase of the trial restarts a legal juggernaut that could saddle the energy giant with the largest environmental penalty in U.S. history, and calculate the amount of crude oil that spewed from the crippled well.
6 Their solution to crippling financial problems has been to merge with one another in an attempt to get bigger and hopefully stronger.