How to Use amputee in a Sentence

amputee

noun

• Four of the volunteers are unilateral amputees, while one, like Jesse, has lost both limbs.
  — Rachel Metz, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2006
• And that advancements in prosthetics have allowed amputees to take a far more active role than what may have been possible in the past.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2024
• 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
• There have been blind runners completing marathons, amputees with prosthetics, runners who were formerly obese or in failing health.
  — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
• Researchers have designed a new kind of prosthetic hand that allowed an amputee to experience the sensation of touch in real-time again.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2014
• See, Furiosa’s comfort with herself mirrors my experience as an amputee.
  — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2015
• The shoes took inspiration from the running blades often used by amputee runners, utilizing a series of hard plastic pedals that offered a spring-loaded response.
  — Pete Forester, Esquire, 13 July 2016
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024