cripple

How To Use cripple In A Sentence

• Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.
• One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside. John Lennon 
• Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant. Captain Blood
• Where the legal definitions of childhood were constructed in order to protect children against working in the mines until their bones grew soft from lack of sunlight or weaving rugs until their legs were crippled from sitting and they were going blind, these same definitions have been used to create target groups for "otherness" - and ugly otherness at that. Thinking with my fingers
• The crippled US plane made an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan.
• We may let in cripples, say a man who has lost an arm, on condition that he give satisfactory evidence that he has an occupation or an art, and is not likely to become a public charge. Civic Responsibility and the Increase of Immigration
• While supply problems have not crippled operations, they have stymied some units.
• Indeed, profit is inconsistent with the point of such a programme which is to socialise losses that would otherwise cripple the financial sector and toss millions of people out of their homes.
• It's crippleware that also has a service connection charge
• A rescue boat managed to come alongside the crippled vessel.