Example Sentences

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A teacher made an emotional plea for help, saying that false accusations of wrongdoing were crippling her and other educators’ ability to teach.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2022

Jennifer Hanssen, a nurse who entered her daughters in the fair’s “Twins Triplets and More Contest,” said health care costs were crippling to her family.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2018

Vu, a veteran of the bureau’s computer-crimes division, had spent years searching for the source of the leaks that were crippling the music industry.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015

The limits of scale at that time were crippling.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013

Whatever character he had he had been born with: it was environment and circumstance that were crippling it.

From Athalie by Craig, Frank