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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
8 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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