How to Use amputee in a Sentence
amputee
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The amputee support group has met once per month for the past 21 years.
— Megan Rodriguez, ExpressNews.com, 5 Aug. 2019 -
But other, unblurred videos of the scene show the man was, in fact, an amputee.
— Quinn Owen, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2022 -
The 15-year-old quadruple amputee, a young black boy, is on the kitchen floor, in a headlock.
— BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2019 -
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 -
Some 200 such amputees had been summoned to be triaged over two days.
— Adam Baidawi, New York Times, 28 July 2017 -
That doesn’t mean there are no amputees in the military.
— Dave Philipps, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024 -
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 -
The first amputee readers meet in the novel is Shafiqa, the stepmother of one of the refugees, Marwan.
— Graham Liddell, The Conversation, 6 May 2024 -
Lambert was the first above-knee amputee to play lacrosse at the college level.
— BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021 -
The question is: would anyone who prefers not to live out their days as an amputee ride one of these things?
— Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 June 2018 -
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 -
Kim Basinger and later, Madonna, were pegged to play the lead role - an amputee love victim - but backed out of the deal.
— Nathan Paige, cleveland.com, 20 May 2017 -
Purdy, a double amputee, had battled health issues in the lead-up to the Games.
— Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018 -
The first blind, double amputee to re-enlist in the Marines after losing his legs and his sight in Iraq in 2007.
— Sarah Gray, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2018 -
By 2017, Barrett had moved in with a friend and her mother, both amputees, and cared for them in exchange for a place to stay.
— Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, 27 June 2019 -
Then Saul Monroy, a below-the-knee amputee from El Paso, went over to him.
— Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2021 -
The reference is to the double amputee played by Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump.
— Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017 -
Even painkillers to help amputees with chronic pain are running low, staff say.
— NBC News, 7 Jan. 2024 -
Friends of Mullins continue to send out calls for help as Mullins learns how to live life as a quadruple amputee.
— Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 3 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 -
In episode one, this man is Mike, a police officer and an amputee.
— Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 19 June 2018 -
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 -
Octogenarians, teenagers, amputees and even a blind man have reached the top of the world.
— Manveena Suri and Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 28 May 2017 -
Who doesn't want to have his picture taken with amputee veterans of various conflicts to be the next commander in chief?
— Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2024 -
Then there are the images meant to evoke pity: patients in hospital beds, crying or endangered children, amputees, the unhoused, the starving.
— Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
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