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How to use cripple in a sentence

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Transaction tax will finish day traders, jobbers and arbitragers, and cripple the share markets.
If there is no rejoinder, then cripple the ship and we'll bring it into the bay with our tractor beam.
The stoppage will cripple services across this region, leading to chaos for passengers.
Its advanced collision detection ensures that any bumps will probably not kill or severely cripple you.
These four steps are closely interrelated, and failing to achieve one of them will cripple the other three.
Like so many other young British patricians, he was saved from becoming a complete emotional cripple by a tenderhearted nanny.
In an associated consideration, mercury in the body tends to quell or cripple selenium in enzymes.
If he didn't attend, King Thomas could strip him of his rank, which would cripple him magically.
We must cripple the American war machine and lend all possible material support to those suffering its wrath.
With 24 actual plies, it can withstand severe cuts that would cripple a tire with just 12 actual plies.
In today's high-speed networked computing environment, both inadvertent damage and malicious attacks can cripple a system in the blink of an eye.
They aimed to cripple the machinery of war, not simply broaden disdain for it.
The first part of their plan was to disable all orbital satellites around the earth, to cripple the technology of advanced secular nations.
It's the very economic powerhouses that they seek to cripple that will be our best hope for salvation if things do start to go wrong.
This could cripple California's economy and have a more devastating effect than damaging a few warships.
Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor.
As they say, even cripple bleeder singles look like line drives in the next day's box scores.
To pre-empt that process by false praise or empty reassurance is not to further the growth of the individual but to cripple it.
He is utterly happy, and so is she, and despite his blindness and being a cripple, she accepts his hand in marriage.
I used my knowledge of a certain pressure point on his body to cripple him and then totally defeat him.
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There is no halfway business of ghastly wounds which foredoom survival as a cripple.
A cripple without legs having succeeded in seizing a drachma, the applause was frenetic.
It was humiliating to be a high-tech cripple and the better the technology worked, the more prone it was to reducing him to tears.
I was streaming with perspiration and upbraiding him for assaulting a cripple.
She began to cripple and jig most painfully for one of her size and dignity.
Her husband was a cripple, almost helpless, an unbeliever, and to some extent an opposer of religion.
Then he recovered and tried to fight, but could do nothing, being a weak cripple, and was literally beaten into limberness.
As it was, the poor little cripple was whipped at Twyford for lampooning his master.
A cripple, in whom one would scarcely recognize the former stalwart Sergeant bombardon, is the bearer.
His power was audaciously used to cripple Bustamante, suppress liberty, gain partisans and benefit himself and his friends.
And my young Claude being a cripple for life, 'is father kicking 'im when he was a crawler in one of 'is drunken fits.
When he presented himself to Dali Mami with his sum in his hands the renegade cripple only laughed at him.
It would cripple his energies, and deaden his desire for active employment.
Jake swung the little, flexuous club softly against his palm, and Gordon suddenly realized that the cripple intended to kill him.
He was evidently a cripple, propped up in a strange wheelchair.
A car called the Antimacassar Moustache would cripple health services in Stockton.
Now she'll probably be a cripple, and Rebecca'll have to nurse her instead of earning a good income somewheres else.
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.
His intention was neither to kill nor to cripple his antagonist.
That was snowballing a cripple, and he was really most woebegone about it.
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