How to Use disabled in a Sentence

disabled

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  • The organization is working to protect the rights of disabled veterans.
  • Adding to the problems was a disabled Amtrak train, the T said.
    — Nbc Boston, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Teen jocks who rape a disabled girl can be found guilty.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
  • That amounts to about $7,000 for a non-disabled student.
    — Bob Christie, ajc, 30 Sep. 2022
  • He has been charged with abuse of the elderly or a disabled adult.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Not even spouses of the disabled could do so at the time, thanks to the state Supreme Court decision.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In the battle that follows, the Lincoln is rammed and disabled.
    — Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Aides who worked with disabled students start at around $19 and can earn up to about $24 an hour.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • David, his mom and a host of disabled people will be very grateful.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Beaudette's car left the road towards and came to a stop in a ditch, while Murphy's car was left disabled in the northbound lane.
    — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Charles Wilson III, 61, is a disabled parent of a 6-year-old boy.
    — Zinhle Essamuah, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The tractor-trailer was disabled and partially in the roadway at the time of the wreck, Peoples said.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The majority of people on the wait lists are like the Rooks: older, disabled, or both.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • The right shoulder is blocked due to a disabled vehicle.
    — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Ariel was one of two children seated in the back of a disabled silver Chevrolet Traverse who were hurt in the crash.
    — Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The elderly, the poor and disabled are more vulnerable and least able to help.
    — David Bainbridge, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Osthoff is disabled and was discharged from the Navy in 2002, according to Patch.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • For those of us who are disabled and want a slower pace, my workshops have a lot of resting and slowing down.
    — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • But early the next morning, Janet found Pamela, 64, who was disabled and used a wheelchair, struggling to breathe.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 20 July 2024
  • 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
  • Resident Tabitha White, 39, a disabled stay at home mom, brought her 12-year-old son to help Stewart.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • For now, disabled people are the first ones to test-drive new technology like this.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
  • He was run over by a car while riding his bicycle last year, which left him disabled.
    — Safire R. Sostre, Essence, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But while driving in such a manner, something in the truck broke and the vehicle became disabled.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Westway had contracts that allowed the company to tow disabled cars to its lot and store them.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Orange Line riders forced to hop out of their disabled train after smoke started pouring out of the first car.
    — Shealagh Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
  • Dixon said her father, a disabled veteran in his 70s, was the surviving victim in the fire and lived at the home with her aunt and uncle.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Mothers run after their children; one of them is developmentally disabled, but in a rural Chinese village circa 1991 he is treated as a laughing stock.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Unfortunately, Jim became disabled as a result of a car accident in 1995 and Carol became his caretaker.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025

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