CRUTCH in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for CRUTCH, such as:

1. One foot is better than two crutches.
2. One is lame, poor thing, he's got a crutch.
3. When he broke his leg he had to walk on crutches.
4. Never till I'm stiff and old and have to use a crutch.
5. I was on crutches for three months after the operation.

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crutch
 n.  a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking
 n.  anything that serves as an expedient
Classic Sentence:
1  Then I bethought me of a crutch, the shape being much the same, and I borrowed one in the village, and displayed it to my sister with considerable confidence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
2  Miss Havisham was taking exercise in the room with the long spread table, leaning on her crutch stick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
3  "This is a gay figure, Pip," said she, making her crutch stick play round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were bestowing the finishing gift.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
4  One is lame, poor thing, he's got a crutch.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
5  Never till I'm stiff and old and have to use a crutch.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
6  Juozapas had only one leg, having been run over by a wagon when a little child, but he had got himself a broomstick, which he put under his arm for a crutch.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
7  In the end she had asked where he lived, and said that she was coming to see him, and bring him a new crutch to walk with.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
8  And he carved out little wooden feet for her, and crutches, taught her the psalm criminals always sing; and she kissed the hand which had wielded the axe, and went over the heath.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE RED SHOES
9  The following Sunday, when the family was going to church, they asked her whether she would not go with them; but she glanced sorrowfully, with tears in her eyes, at her crutches.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE RED SHOES
10  Suddenly the door opened, and a woman as old as the hills, who supported herself on crutches, came creeping out.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
11  Both are tall fellows with whiskers, Fred handsome in the English style, and Frank much better, for he only limps slightly, and uses no crutches.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
12  Scarlett don't any more need your arm than she needs crutches and I'm not so peart, as Will observed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  Perfectly cured he certainly was not, for he supported himself forward on crutches to give evidence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
15  On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay," stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table, but not touching it, "was brought here.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
Example Sentence:
1  One foot is better than two crutches.
2  When he broke his leg he had to walk on crutches.
3  Martin broke his leg playing football and has been on crutches for the past six weeks.
4  I was on crutches for three months after the operation.