Sentences with word «crutch»

A crutch is a support or aid, often used by someone who has difficulty walking or has an injury to their leg or foot. It helps them to balance and take weight off the injured area, so they can move around more easily. Full definition
Yep, agreed but I still wouldn't be surprised to see Ramsey in the starting line up, with a pair of crutches of course.?
For people who are breastfeeding, breast pumps are often just as medically necessary as a pair of crutches for someone with a broken leg.
But reimbursement for certain medical equipment — such as crutches or a leg boot after an injury — varies widely from plan to plan.
What would happen if you were carelessly walking and texting at the same time, and didn't see the person on crutches in your way?
As you give extra time and attention to your older child who is experiencing some sleep regression, be careful to not create a new sleep crutch such as holding his hand till he goes to sleep, lying down with him each night, or letting him listen to an audiobook at bedtime till he goes to sleep.
Once support, access and mobility become the norm, new ideas can form — like using crutches as giant chopsticks to pick things up off the floor — leading to innovation.
People who need crutches do not belong on the road to professionalism.
Patients go home after surgery, and are generally able to start walking without crutches in a couple of days after the procedure.
His naturally pallid skin tone works in his favor there, as does the decision to hinder him with crutches for the entire second act, causing him to strike an increasingly pitiable and desperate figure as the gaslighting sets in.
They also need to be discouraged from using their fingers, which will become crutches when they are in second or third grade, and expected to regroup for addition and subtraction.
Unlike many horror films you'll catch in the theater and on DVD, these cliches aren't crutches of a lazy writer.
Try not to use slang and keep tabs on crutch words, such as «like», that undermine your seriousness.
This will include not only his risk for major life threatening events, but also a lack of mobility and proneness to injury as was exemplified by (the father's) hobbling around on crutches when last seen individually.
So, much like crutches support walking, iPads can buttress teaching.
It's time to help your baby overcome their sleep crutches so everyone can wake up happy.
The former Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks head coach attended practice Thursday on crutches because of a knee replacement surgery earlier this month.
I see religion as simply an emotional crutch used in time of need and ignored (sins) when no support is needed.
This is my first holiday season eating grain free and paleo baking is a much needed emotional crutch while everybody around me is swapping cookies Thanks for sharing such yummy looking recipes!
After undergoing the procedure at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Nicklaus followed his doctors» instructions perfectly, progressing smoothly from crutches to a cane to walking to swinging a club.
If the opening voiceover narration by Winslet's lovelorn Iris isn't warning enough, consider that the narrative crutch used by Diaz's emetic movie trailer - editor Amanda is a series of fake movie trailers about Amanda's romantic imbroglios.
(Video) What Danny Murphy said about the Everton fan in crutches after the goal against Liverpool
Linebacker Noah Furbush was spotted on the Michigan sidelines with crutches during Friday evening's Spring Game.
When entering a world, a workforce, where there's perhaps not as much time to debate Malthus over a six pack or to sit through lectures that introduce us to waves of new data, it's going to be easier to turn to those biases, turn them into crutches.
«Pick - up deals become mental crutches and self - fulfilling prophecies for children.»
Within a couple of weeks, you should be able to put your child down, say good night, and walk out the door knowing that he'll be able to fall asleep without crutches such as laying with him, rocking, or patting.
Doc - didn't mean to hit a nerve, I realize that for many of you science is the only crutch.
But they will get crutches as well, I don't want to keep reprinting.
But if you really can't do without the psychological crutch of dollar - cost averaging, then I suggest at least minimize its shortcomings by reducing the amount of time it takes to get to your target asset allocation.
You may be given crutches, a walker or a cane to help with walking.
In it, a little girl with forearm crutches models a Princess Elsa from «Frozen» costume.
Solittle humor in Christians in general and of course the lack of self esteem needing to be saved by the big crutch in the sky.
The term Texas Crutch refers to the use of aluminum foil when cooking barbecue.
As a prequel to Until Dawn, you'd be forgiven for thinking SuperMassive Games would simply rely upon old crutches for The Inpatient.
Staircase Descending a Nude quietly joins a wooden crutch supporting the sagging branch of a large beech tree, sharing its load, but a close look reveals a hyperactive surface of protruding hammers, noses, and bulging fingers.
So what are you saying Joe... people can't use proven steps w / o eliminating what doesn't work for them personally???? I mean just cuz you need that god crutch does not mean everyone else does.
The various systems of the federal government today are analogous to GPS and Siri: efficient for plugged - in folks to leverage but also crutches which do not, in and of themselves, demonstrate personal usefulness, discretion, or judgment.
From an office chair composed of rubber to dozens of crutches made of silicone and one of Ernesto Neto's signature works created with nylon «pantyhose,» examples were evident at countless galleries exhibiting at the fair.
Also marching in the female I'm Not Too Thin parade: the Blue Devils» women's basketball team, which retains all five starters from 1997 - 98, and the Huskies, who lost crutch -... er, clutch - shooting Nykesha Sales but get back the» 96 - 97 Big East women's rookie of the year, guard Shea Ralph, who missed last season.
Not Wenger out, but crutch out.
In Ready Player One, nostalgia has been transmuted from an easy crutch into a codified way of existence, where people talk about decades - old video games and movies like they're the building blocks of contemporary life.
Thanks to BriefCatch, I employ my worst writing crutches less often and use more of the simple, forceful prose favored by top legal writers.»
When I wrote this I was showing how some of the «popular» baby registry items can provide crutches to overly tired new moms.
But we all lean on marketing crutches — tactics we're told are tried - and - true or products and systems we're promised will send us automatic leads.
Alibaba's success has also provided a financial crutch for Yahoo, whose stake in the company is the main reason Yahoo's stock price has more than doubled in the past two years.
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