able-bodied

How To Use able-bodied In A Sentence

• Disabled and able-bodied pupils got together for a dance and drama day.
• It is hard for the able-bodied to understand the difficulties that disabled people encounter in their daily lives.
• His strong able-bodied cockswain did good service in cheerfully carrying his much-loved Commander, and they managed to return to the boat, and brought the two bereaved and sorrow-stricken ladies back to the “Pioneer.” A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
• Arm an able-bodied person with a bike and give them access to a reliable train service and virtually any conceivable journey is possible. Times, Sunday Times
• Closest to the fire sat the village elders and leaders, then sat the able-bodied men, and the outside of the huddle consisted of the women and children.
• There are good paths, or so it seems, and the less able-bodied can hire an electric buggy providing they book in advance.
• There were neither lifeboats nor mortar-apparatus in those days, but there were the same willing hearts and stout arms then as now, and in a marvellously short space of time, hundreds of the able-bodied men of the town, gentle and semple, were assembled on these wild cliffs, with torches, rope, &c.; in short, with all the appliances for saving life that the philanthropy of the times had invented or discovered. The Lighthouse
• While the zoot suit eventually attained widespread popularity in the mainstream, it also became a pejorative synonym for "Mexican" on the West Coast as some Americans took umbrage at so many able-bodied young men who were not "helping to win the war. From Zoot Suits to Border Walls
• Disabled and able-bodied children will now be able to enjoy the playground together because of its specially designed equipment.
• The vessel is designed to enable able-bodied and physically disabled people to experience the adventure of off-shore sailing.