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How to use the word CRUTCH in a Sentence?

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The market is not too old for the government to be a crutch .

AMYNE E. QASEM

added by Aeqasem
2 years ago

Obviously, we didn't have a few guys go, but we can't lean on that as a crutch, we should've done a better job in the first half of executing, there's no way of getting around that. I'm not extremely pleased with how we played in that first group.

Tim Boyle

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

James Baldwin

added by Normando
3 years ago

Just out of the surgery room, everything went to plan, everything went perfect and I'm feeling tremendous. We've got six weeks on a crutch now and then we begin to build back.

Conor McGregor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

[Communist Goals for America:] - Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.” - Control schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. - Soften curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put party line in textbooks. Control student newspapers. - Infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion (i.e. “social justice,” “liberation theology”). - Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.” - Discredit American culture. - Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and divorce. - Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.

Albert S. Herlong Jr.

added by Normando
5 years ago

It sends the wrong message. Maybe you're using it as a crutch during a hard month ... you're not going to see changes from that beyond Christmas.

Wagner Said

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Your social mission can’t be a crutch.

Daniel Lubetzky

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Lily Tomlin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Lily Tomlin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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