How to Use cripple in a Sentence

cripple

verb

• Higher taxes could cripple small businesses.
• Its pitch was not about the need to cripple the company for the sake of the planet.
  — Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
• In a race like this, a fall would cripple a racer’s chance of making it to the award stand.
  — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 June 2021
• That crippled Huawei’s smartphone brand, once one of the world’s biggest.
  — Joe McDonald, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• To the researchers’ surprise, FTO doesn’t kill off or cripple the plant.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• That doesn’t count the Stanford result, which shouldn’t cripple the Beavers chances.
  — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2022
• The strike had threatened to cripple US supply chains and push prices higher for many goods.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
• If the west does not step up to help Ukraine the constant rocket attacks could cripple the country.
  — Michael Gale, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• There is nothing like a Russian prison to cripple even those in perfect health.
  — Dasha Navalnaya, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
• The developing bomb cyclone could cripple travel in the Midwest on some of the busiest travel days of the year.
  — Dave Hennen, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
• British guitarist Michael Watts told me that luthiers and musicians alike have been known to cripple themselves with debt just to get a piece of The Tree.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
• The Kansas City Chiefs signed their star quarterback to the type of mega contract that can cripple a franchise.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2023
• The mindset that losses in the regular season don’t cripple your chances of winning the biggest prizes at the end of the season.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2022
• This is when mistakes threaten to cripple progress, cost jobs and have a lasting impact.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 14 July 2021
• That would cripple most programs and force a rebuilding year.
  — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Rettig warned that such steep cuts would cripple the agency.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
• Google also wants to cripple ad blockers on Chrome sometime this year.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2023
• The feature will set the maximum refresh rate to 60Hz on the Pros, which will cripple the ProMotion feature.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Sep. 2022
• Ensler said factors that cripple learning in school systems like Montgomery’s are complex and that many start in the home.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 24 Oct. 2022
• With Jackson, the Chargers should be able to avoid playing the sort of zone schemes that Staley said can cripple a defense in critical times.
  — Jeff Millerstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• The Trump Org would not be able to buy any real estate in New York for five years and have to remove the family members from their roles, which could cripple the firm.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2022
• Yet even then, his $20 million salary won't exactly cripple any plans to add to Houston's roster.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 19 Dec. 2022
• In any case, China’s economy is large enough to absorb blows that would cripple others.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Texas is bracing for icy conditions that could cripple roads across major cities.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2023
• With that protein being weak, the virus can infiltrate and cripple our immune system.
  — Shelby Denise Smith, Essence, 30 July 2022
• That would cripple the continent’s energy systems and result in a huge surge in prices.
  — Anna Shiryaevskaya, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2022
• Their loss would be a political blow that would also cripple any new Russian regime.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Thompson also predicts the rule will cripple port traffic.
  — Douglas Kennedy, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Builders of big swimming pools and spas for custom homes in far-flung neighborhoods complained the cap could cripple their companies, and that lap pools and diving boards may become a thing of the past.
  — Ken Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2022
• How about the great irony of hooligans using ransomware called RobbinHood to cripple the entire city of Baltimore in 2019?
  — Washington Post, 13 May 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024