Sentence examples for crippled about from inspiring English sources

But if I were so careless that my risk of slipping in the shower each time were as high as 1 in 1,000, I'd die or become crippled about five times before reaching my life expectancy.

You become so scared, thinking you will die, thinking you may be crippled, thinking about your children".

The American theatre world, it seems, is often crippled by insecurity about its own talent, once Wilder, Miller, Williams, and Albee have been shuffled across the boards.

Sometimes things aren't going great at work, my relationship feels more taxing than usual, or I'm just crippled with fear about getting older.

Completing his introduction to a packed Alice Tully Hall, Weinstein shouted out to the French politician who deems The Intouchables a parable about crippled France rescued by immigrants, a hot topic in any country, politicized.

When I finally asked where he came from, he gazed at his shoes and muttered "Austria", as though crippled with proxy guilt about Josef Fritzl.

The one Southerner, Heyward, was a Charleston insurance salesman turned poet who had written a novel, "Porgy," the inspiration for which had come from a news story about a crippled beggar he used to see around town.

In the context of a city — and a country — still crippled by old thinking about race, the presence of the African-American galleries constitutes an important gesture in two ways.

The markets might have suffered a tough, queasy ride in the third quarter, as investors struggled with worries about a crippled residential real estate market, tighter credit conditions, and expectations of a slowing U.S. economy.

It seems that noted firebrand Mike Daisey's story – the one about the crippled, underaged factory workers who unspooled tales of woe and torture at the hands of their evil Foxconn masters at Apple's behest- was at least partially fabricated.

One of the grandfathers, crippled with ALS, talked about how the service had helped him.