Example sentences for: hobbled

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

  • It's a testament to Lee's talent that, hobbled as he is by a chip on his shoulder the size of a planet and aspirations often laughably outsized, he has managed to make a film as entertaining as He Got Game . Uneven, ludicrous, but--oh man!

  • The seizure last week of the Myanmar (Burma) Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, by pro-democracy protestors "achieved precious little to advance the cause of the hobbled pro-democracy movement in that benighted country," the Straits Times of Singapore said in an editorial.

  • "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, and liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair," Johnson said.

  • English-imposed legal disabilities also hobbled the efforts of poor Irish Catholics to redress ill-treatment by Anglo-Irish landowners and merchants.

  • Talk of the inclusion of sterility-inducing ingredients targeting black men hobbled both Church's Fried Chicken (1989) and the soft drink Tropical Fantasy (early 1990s).


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