How to Use able-bodied in a Sentence

able-bodied

adjective

• The younger and able-bodied men slept in cars parked outside.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
• A day at the track is not limited to the able-bodied anymore.
  — Sami Haj-Assaad, Car and Driver, 5 June 2023
• These are able-bodied people, who otherwise could use their hands.
  — Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2023
• Now, the Englishman is looking to make his mark in the sport’s able-bodied realm.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
• Perhaps there was a time when the assumption that able-bodied young men would always be in the workforce made sense.
  — Jens Ludwig, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
• This means that an able-bodied adult must apply themselves for 20 hours a week, or for four hours per day, five days a week.
  — Victoria Ivie, Oc Register, 30 July 2025
• Absent changes, many able-bodied adults will remain jobless, which is bad for them and our economy.
  — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Now, middle-aged and still able-bodied, many are making a reverse migration.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• With all the men at the front, able-bodied women were conscripted to go to the forests in summer to collect wood for fuel.
  — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
• As with Leyva's great-grandmother, many were enslaved not as able-bodied adults but as children.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
• The time limit for able-bodied adults was waived across the country by a law passed at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
• Between all that effort, service dogs fit into the life of their person in a way that many able-bodied dog owners want their pets to fit into theirs.
  — Brian Hare, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2024
• All able-bodied men aged 18 to 35 in South Korea must serve in the military.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
• So the Kremlin has been seeking out ways to encourage able-bodied people to come to Russia.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2025
• The bill raises the age limit for able-bodied adults without dependents from 54 to 64.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 4 July 2025
• The emotional wounds of a trans or disabled Latina are going to be different than someone who is able-bodied.
  — Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Smith uses the analogy of a shovel—which increased the power of able-bodied workers—versus a steam shovel—which did the work for them.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
• In South Korea, all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 28 are required to serve for two years.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
• And being front of the camera, say as an actor or a model, was a career once mostly closed for those who didn't appear perfectly able-bodied.
  — Alan Schwarz, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
• The first step in such service is to enlist as many able-bodied adults as possible to begin ferrying slices and ice cream as quickly as they can be plated.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the 1930s millions of able-bodied Americans were thrown out of work and onto breadlines through no fault of their own.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
• Part of the challenge in para-athletics is finding a way to modify a sport to an athlete whereas an able-bodied competitor conforms to the sport.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2024
• Trump’s big bill, which is now law, requires able-bodied adults to work 80 hours per month to qualify for Medicaid benefits.
  — Lawrence Andrea, jsonline.com, 9 July 2025
• The agreement would raise the age for existing work requirements on able-bodied adults, from 49 to 54, without children.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 May 2023
• Without a waiver, able-bodied adults would have to work at least 20 hours a week or spend the equivalent amount of time in a workforce development program.
  — Christen Smith | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Sep. 2024
• All able-bodied men in Korea are required to perform 18-21 months of military service.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands were added to the Medicaid rolls when Steve Beshear expanded the program to cover able-bodied adults.
  — Fox News, 19 Apr. 2023
• The changes to the Healthy Indiana Plan include a 36-month cap for able-bodied, childless adults, Mishler said.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
• Wheelchair Tennis Wheelchair tennis pretty much follows the same rules of able-bodied tennis, except here the ball can bounce twice before the player hits it back.
  — Molly Higgins, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2024
• Military service is mandatory in South Korea, with all able-bodied men expected to serve in the army for 18 months by the age of 28.
  — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023