The sidewalks of the city are crowded with cripples begging for coins.
The Coast Guard has rescued forty sailors from a crippled freighter off the coast of Newfoundland.
She has been in bed for weeks with a crippling case of arthritis.
It is hard for many poor countries to
develop their economies because they are facing such crippling debt.
At the age of twenty, he was crippled for life in a serious car accident.
The island nation has been crippled by a hurricane that has flattened houses and knocked out electricity all over the country.
The
farmer had to shoot his horse after it became crippled as a result of a bad fall.
Tiny Tim walked with a crutch because he had one crippled leg.
Daniela has suffered all her life from a crippling shyness that has made it very difficult to form social relationships.
She has
been emotionally crippled by her experience of being sexually abused by her father all through her childhood.
Thousands of children have been crippled by landmines left over from the war.
A Chinese proverb claims that eighteen daughters beautiful as goddesses are not as good as one crippled son.
Russell Lynes once suggested that cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Barbara Tuchman once stated that without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
John Lennon sang, One thing you can't hide, is when you're crippled inside.