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Their solution to crippling financial problems has been to merge with one another in an attempt to get bigger and hopefully stronger.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRIPPLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cripple
 n.  person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limb
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  Now for the sinister cripple who lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. Clair.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
3  It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
4  Everybody as knowed about Mester Craven knowed there was a little lad as was like to be a cripple, an they knowed Mester Craven didn't like him to be talked about.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  And yet, wretched cripple as I made myself by this act of homage to Dora, I walked miles upon miles daily in the hope of seeing her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
6  I had nearly holed my cripple, to finish off that charming trip.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
7  He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to everybody, for another ten years.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
8  This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly have had himself drawn by the lightning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
9  The crippled peasant remained for some time looking after them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  But it's very hard for Sir Clifford, you know, crippled like that.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the underground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  She wanted to go back to Wragby, even to Clifford, even to poor crippled Clifford.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  To a walker practised in such places a difference between impact on maiden herbage, and on the crippled stalks of a slight footway, is perceptible through the thickest boot or shoe.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
14  In fact, in the whole of that floor there was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, it seems, made his home there.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
15  A lucky long shot of my revolver might have crippled him, but I had brought it only to defend myself if attacked and not to shoot an unarmed man who was running away.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
Example Sentence:
1  I have no muscle left in my leg; it's like a true cripple leg.
2  She has gone from being a healthy, fit, and sporty young woman to being a cripple.
3  She was crippled in a car accident.
4  In later life she was crippled with arthritis.
5  The second phase of the trial restarts a legal juggernaut that could saddle the energy giant with the largest environmental penalty in U.S. history, and calculate the amount of crude oil that spewed from the crippled well.
6  Their solution to crippling financial problems has been to merge with one another in an attempt to get bigger and hopefully stronger.