Explore Crippled through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like halt or halting. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Crippled meaning
- Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
- Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
Using Crippled
- The main meaning on this page is: Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility. | Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
- Useful related words include: halt, halting, lame, gimpy.
- In the example corpus, crippled often appears in combinations such as: crippled by, crippled the, has crippled.
Context around Crippled
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crippled
- In this selection, "crippled" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, woman, trains, policy, inside, children and status stand out and add context to how "crippled" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 4 november crippled johannesburg water and a woman crippled by lyme. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crippled" sits close to words such as ailments, bilingual and bombings, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crippled
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Facing determined resistance and crippled by their own incompetence, they soon abandoned their ambitious plans. (15 words)
However what makes her unique is her first talent, which introduces the Crippled status effect. (15 words)
The absolutist policy crippled the economy and triggered social unrest before it was abruptly abandoned in December. (17 words)
And it has been crippled since the halcyon days of the free internet that was cut off after Trump’s election in 2016 by the Empire Striking Back—in the form of shadow-banning, deplatforming by, e.g., Facebook, YouTube, and demonetization by, e.g., Amazon. (46 words)
Jubilant lawmakers in Lusaka sang Zambia’s national anthem on Friday after foreign lenders agreed to restructure part of the country’s debt, a move that entrepreneurs said brought hope for the crippled economy. (34 words)
The earthquakes and aftershocks crippled critical roads and infrastructure, warehouses, and coordination systems needed to organize deliveries of aid through the only Security Council-approved UN aid corridor from Turkey into the affected areas. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Suddenly a loud disturbing noise erupts bringing out Emily (Julia McDermott), a woman crippled by Lyme’s disease, who is just as crippled inside as she is out.
If making RM80 million per year is being crippled, then I don’t mind being crippled any time.
A last year between the union and the government over a separate fleet of Korean-built intercity trains crippled the rail network.
Among the parts of the economy hurt by the strikes include pubs and restaurants, which had already been crippled by draconian and damaging restrictions imposed during the Covid pandemic.
An Autumn For Crippled Children will release their new record on August 4, and they're here to begin the darkening of your day with "Where Pain Begins".
And it has been crippled since the halcyon days of the free internet that was cut off after Trump’s election in 2016 by the Empire Striking Back—in the form of shadow-banning, deplatforming by, e.g., Facebook, YouTube, and demonetization by, e.g., Amazon.
Dozens of people anxiously wait to withdraw money from cash dispensers that is crippled by cash shortages at a bank in Kano, northwest Nigeria, on February 8, 2023.
Facing determined resistance and crippled by their own incompetence, they soon abandoned their ambitious plans.
However what makes her unique is her first talent, which introduces the Crippled status effect.
I think it’s one of those games where we’ve been crippled with injuries the last couple of weeks and we kind of had to put square pegs in round holes today.
Japan’s prime minister ate what he called “safe and delicious” fish from Fukushima on Wednesday, days after wastewater was released from the area’s crippled nuclear plant into the Pacific.
Jubilant lawmakers in Lusaka sang Zambia’s national anthem on Friday after foreign lenders agreed to restructure part of the country’s debt, a move that entrepreneurs said brought hope for the crippled economy.
The 2023 growth projection was premised on strong agricultural output and the belief that foreign exchange supply—which crippled the economy in 2022—would improve this year.
The absolutist policy crippled the economy and triggered social unrest before it was abruptly abandoned in December.
The deafening silence by the regulator and operators of the banking system over a failed currency redesign project and an over-stretched mobile banking network has crippled the economy.
The earthquakes and aftershocks crippled critical roads and infrastructure, warehouses, and coordination systems needed to organize deliveries of aid through the only Security Council-approved UN aid corridor from Turkey into the affected areas.
The payments crippled the Haitian economy and set the tone for the continuous exploitation of the island.
Think of it like when dropped 38 points in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals while crippled by food poisoning.
A four-hour electricity outage at Palmiet pump station (following a three-hour outage on 4 November) crippled Johannesburg Water's ability to supply an enormous area, including Midrand, Diepsloot, Sandton and Alexandra.
And, earlier this year, a single software update from CrowdStrike simultaneously and without warning crippled millions of Windows computers worldwide, costing billions in economic damage.
Common combinations with crippled
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: