cripple
Example Sentences
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The costs of production are just cripplingly high.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
As a child, Couto was cripplingly shy, unable to speak up for himself in public or even at home.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024
"Axos has teamed up with nonbank lenders on loans to small businesses that carried cripplingly high double- and triple-digit effective annual interest rates," reported NBC, citing loan documents.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2022
In dollar terms, those revenues are just 5% of their level before the crisis erupted in 2019, showing the extent of the collapse of the Lebanese pound, which has made imported equipment cripplingly expensive.
From Reuters ● Jan. 13, 2022
“Dad’s weird because he’s afraid we’re going to be cripplingly and emotionally damaged,” Maya replied, her pen between her teeth as she flipped back and forth between her physics textbook and her lab book.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
