How to Use disabled in a Sentence

disabled

adjective
  • The organization is working to protect the rights of disabled veterans.
  • Collins is disabled and cannot work.
    Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The ships were all disabled but not sunk.
    The Week Uk, TheWeek, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The small bits of steel have disabled cars.
    Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • That a disabled life has just as much worth as any other.
    Polly Atkin august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Who votes against helping disabled vets?
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Bill Roberts, 78 and disabled, rarely leaves his home.
    Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • He has been charged with abuse of the elderly or a disabled adult.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • David, his mom and a host of disabled people will be very grateful.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
  • With his truck disabled, Alubidy ran away.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Residents, disabled or not, should not have to be afraid in their homes.
    Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Residents, disabled or not, should not have to be afraid in their homes.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Many of them were elderly or disabled.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 23 June 2026
  • There are buckets of disabled mobile phones.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The acclaim provides her a soapbox to bring the rights for the disabled to light.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Comments are also disabled on those videos.
    Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Kemp said Dole remained an activist for the disabled to the end of his life.
    al, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The highway was closed at one point due to a disabled vehicle.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 June 2026
  • He was run over by a car while riding his bicycle last year, which left him disabled.
    Safire R. Sostre, Essence, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Two mothers caring for their disabled sons now face losing their homes.
    Tara Bannow, STAT, 13 July 2026
  • That driver's car then became disabled at the scene, and the driver ran off.
    Todd Feurer, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • Others say the light can easily be missed or disabled.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Her father, who lives out of state and is disabled, could not add her to his insurance.
    Davi Jacobs, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2026
  • Ricky looks out for his disabled father, a man who beat his kids, then left and never returned.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • There are disabled changing rooms, showers and bathrooms in the gym.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026
  • This said, for some seniors and disabled folks, $50 a month is still a big expense.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Where will this leave the careers of disabled employees?
    Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Adding to the problems was a disabled Amtrak train, the T said.
    Nbc Boston, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The program adapted as the mentally disabled were moved out of group homes.
    al, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The dog-washing station is designed so that disabled children can use it.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2022

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