Wondering how to use Crutch in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as staff or expedient.
Crutch meaning
- A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
- Something or someone that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
- A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
Using Crutch
- The main meaning on this page is: A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg. | Something or someone that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop | A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
- Useful related words include: staff, expedient.
- In the example corpus, crutch often appears in combinations such as: as crutch, the crutch, crutch and.
Context around Crutch
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crutch
- In this selection, "crutch" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ben, handed, welcome, phrase and nostalgia stand out and add context to how "crutch" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a crutch and a parenting crutch with deep. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crutch" sits close to words such as acrimony, aerosmith and albus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crutch
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She was on a crutch, which fell and she picked it up. (12 words)
A team of psychologists worrying after us would be a welcome crutch. (12 words)
But I also feel like it’s a bit of a crutch. (12 words)
It’s an idea that seems interesting, but it has a very short shelf life, you really can’t do all that much with it, it just comes off as a lazy storytelling device for creative to use as a crutch. (41 words)
At Dumbarton Sheriff Court on February 6, McLafferty - previously of Braes Avenue and Westwood Quadrant and now of Boyle Street, Whitecrook - was said to have been "using alcohol as a crutch". (31 words)
Keith no longer has a stake in the company, but its acquisition by the oil conglomerate has resurfaced concerns that geoengineering could be a crutch for the fossil fuel industry. (30 words)
You're jumping to conclusions (again), or that "leaker" you use like a crutch is full of shit? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
Alcohol became my crutch, and between 2020 and 2022, what started as a glass of wine a couple of nights a week escalated.
Carpenter Ben Crutch, 35, was not completely won over but understood the reasoning behind the changes.
It’s an idea that seems interesting, but it has a very short shelf life, you really can’t do all that much with it, it just comes off as a lazy storytelling device for creative to use as a crutch.
Mitchum’s sheriff JP Harrah had been wounded in the right leg and needed a right-handed crutch.
Stressed by a high-pressure legal career he didn’t enjoy, he was using booze as a crutch and hiding his true feelings about work from Sian.
That man whose crutch was found told the police it was Farren who had the baseball bat and further evidence was obtained from a doorbell camera.
What’s not stated is that it will mainly be used as a crutch to power energy-hungry coastal cities.
At Dumbarton Sheriff Court on February 6, McLafferty - previously of Braes Avenue and Westwood Quadrant and now of Boyle Street, Whitecrook - was said to have been "using alcohol as a crutch".
He worked as a cleaner at fast food giant McDonald's sustaining major injuries to his leg and has had operations but he remains disabled walking with a crutch.
Keith no longer has a stake in the company, but its acquisition by the oil conglomerate has resurfaced concerns that geoengineering could be a crutch for the fossil fuel industry.
She was on a crutch, which fell and she picked it up.
You're jumping to conclusions (again), or that "leaker" you use like a crutch is full of shit?
A team of psychologists worrying after us would be a welcome crutch.
Bribing kids to finish all of their lima beans and broccoli is a parenting crutch with deep roots.
But I also feel like it’s a bit of a crutch.
Call it "sharpening their attacks" or "framing" or any other crutch phrase of horse-race political writing, if you like.
It's much better than using CGI as a crutch and not utilizing more creative avenues to bring a film to life.
It typically carried a single 551-pound bomb under the fuselage (released by a crutch-like dispenser to avoid hitting the propeller) and four 110-pound bombs under the wings.
More importantly, they’re funny comics who aren’t going to use their Latino background as a crutch that allows them to perform lazy jokes.
While his debut loosely explored romance, RYC wrestles with his generation’s emotional crutch: nostalgia.
Common combinations with crutch
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as crutch 9×
- the crutch 7×
- crutch and 5×
- crutch to 3×
- crutch for 3×
- my crutch 2×
- crutch was 2×
- crutch is 2×
- crutch that 2×
- crutch of 2×