How to Use amputee in a Sentence

amputee

noun

• But other, unblurred videos of the scene show the man was, in fact, an amputee.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2022
• Above-the-knee amputees also need a knee joint, which costs more.
  — Jennie Coughlin, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• Now, the amputee turtle has a safe home and plenty of new friends.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
• The team displayed the prototype at a high school fair, and a young amputee named Ernest Priester, 13, asked to try it on.
  — Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• Lambert was the first above-knee amputee to play lacrosse at the college level.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• That’s a point of frustration for the first C-5 loadmaster amputee in the Air Force.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Nov. 2021
• Kolfage, an amputee who lost three limbs serving in Iraq, could serve more than five years in prison.
  — Shayna Jacobs, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
• But what knocked my proverbial socks off is not what the above-the-knee-amputee did above the water, but under it.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• Then Saul Monroy, a below-the-knee amputee from El Paso, went over to him.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2021
• Even painkillers to help amputees with chronic pain are running low, staff say.
  — NBC News, 7 Jan. 2024
• Femita Ayanbeku aims to become the fastest female amputee in the world.
  — Allison Torres Burtka, Outside Online, 25 Aug. 2021
• One of the limb recipients is an amputee gamer named James Young.
  — Chloé Valentine Toscano, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• From time to time, the men pause to stand on one leg while crossing the other in front and holding it by the shin — balancing like amputees.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Ramachandran had the genius idea to place a mirror next to the amputee’s intact limb.
  — Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2020
• Arlester Johnson, who is a double amputee, said more needs to be done.
  — Elise Preston, CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
• His report made the news and its amputee owner came forward to claim his former limb.
  — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2021
• The sessions for the amputee footballers normally run for two hours.
  — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Woodhall, 22, who was raised in Syracuse, Utah, achieved this as a double amputee.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
• Parents have reached out to ask if Brittany can talk to their child, facing a new battle as an amputee.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2021
• Cadete says a big conversation in the world of prosthetic limbs for amputees is how the brain will adapt to these devices.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Brittany is an above-the-knee amputee and the biggest risk for any person who has lost a lower limb is falling, her mom said.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2021
• The amputee population isn't a huge one in the United States -- there are only about 2 million of us.
  — Meg Dunn, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• In the middle was just enough space to lie down if Yoon, a double amputee, removed his prosthetic legs.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• And so the Paralympian — who was born with popliteal pterygium syndrome and is a double above-knee amputee — took him up on the offer.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• Pistorius made Olympic history in 2012, becoming the first amputee to take part in the Olympics.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2021
• Competing with Rob Jones, also a double-amputee athlete, the pair brought home a Bronze Olympic medal in the trunk and arms mixed double skulls event.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 23 Mar. 2021
• Duckworth is the first female double-amputee to serve in the Senate and was also the first senator to give birth while in office.
  — Kate Sullivan, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
• Hop will be voiced by stage actor David Connolly, the first amputee to perform on Broadway.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
• The double amputee has already brought home medals in rowing, biathlon, and cross-country skiing.
  — Macaela MacKenzi, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2021
• Abri is 11 now, and healthy, save complications that come with being an amputee.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 5 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024