CRIPPLING in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for CRIPPLING, such as:
1. She was crippled in a car accident.
2. In later life she was crippled with arthritis.
3. Sherman had dealt the Confederacy a crippling blow.
4. The crippled peasant remained for some time looking after them.
5. But it's very hard for Sir Clifford, you know, crippled like that.
2. In later life she was crippled with arthritis.
3. Sherman had dealt the Confederacy a crippling blow.
4. The crippled peasant remained for some time looking after them.
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 CRIPPLING
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crippling
a. that cripples or disables or incapacitates
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 Sherman had dealt the Confederacy a crippling blow.
2 At first I did not realize their blindness, and struck furiously at them with my bar, in a frenzy of fear, as they approached me, killing one and crippling several more.
3 The crippled peasant remained for some time looking after them.
4 But it's very hard for Sir Clifford, you know, crippled like that.
5 He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the underground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.
6 She wanted to go back to Wragby, even to Clifford, even to poor crippled Clifford.
7 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.
8 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
9 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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
10 Then she came down the street with her eyes blazing, and I saw the crippled wretch standing by the lamp-post and shaking his clenched fists in the air as if he were mad with rage.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
Context Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
11 Most people were either indifferent to his troubles, or disposed to think it natural that a young fellow of his age should have carried without repining the burden of three crippled lives.
12 One afternoon, Scarlett pulled up her buggy beside Rene Picard's pie wagon and hailed Rene and the crippled Tommy Wellburn, who was catching a ride home with his friend.
13 Tommy Wellburn, in spite of his crippled back, was the busiest contractor in town and coining money, so people said.
14 Everyone knew the details of the raid, the killing of Frank Kennedy and crippled Tommy Wellburn and how Ashley was wounded in carrying Frank's body away.
15 It seemed that they must have agencies all over the country, to hunt out old and crippled and diseased cattle to be canned.
Example Sentence:
1 Their solution to crippling financial problems has been to merge with one another in an attempt to get bigger and hopefully stronger.
2 She was crippled in a car accident.
3 In later life she was crippled with arthritis.
4 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.
5 I have no muscle left in my leg; it's like a true cripple leg.
6 She has gone from being a healthy, fit, and sporty young woman to being a cripple.