crutch

How To Use crutch In A Sentence

• They don't really need the conversational crutch of football, but they engage to connect with their colleagues. Times, Sunday Times
• You can lean on each other's crutches in your twilight years. Times, Sunday Times
• When he broke his leg he had to walk on crutches.
• I can now walk without crutches. The Sun
• I sighed and then picked up my crutches, hobbled to the door, and down the hall of the apartment to the living room.
• Living on an irrigation property on the banks of the Murray River, Ray's childhood was spent on the farm helping with flood irrigation, fencing, harvesting lucerne, shearing and crutching.
• He can walk on crutches for short periods, but relies on his wheelchair. Times, Sunday Times
• Memmel's cast, which had extended to just below her knee, was removed, but she is still on crutches.
• And if the crutches echo, we know the space is reverberant. 2009 September « paper fruit
• Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables