Example sentences for: crippled

How can you use “crippled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And the treasury was empty after earthquake, famine, and plague had crippled the economy.

  • Hardly a pack of jackals feeding off the crippled South, the carpetbaggers came from various backgrounds and acted from a range of motives, historians tell us.

  • "For Microsoft's image, the damage is incalculable," said the Wall Street Journal . "It's hard to imagine how the findings … could have been worse news for Microsoft," added the Washington Post . The media, like the company itself, seem crippled by a failure of imagination.

  • He grew up hardscrabble and was crippled in the bloom of his handsome prime!

  • My body is to me like a crippled rabbit that I don't want to pet, that I forget to feed on time, that I haven't time to play with and get to know, a useless rabbit kept in a cage that it would be cruel to turn loose.


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