How to Use disabled in a Sentence

disabled

adjective
  • The organization is working to protect the rights of disabled veterans.
  • The right shoulder is blocked due to a disabled vehicle.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Medicaid is a series of state programs that serve poor and disabled people.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Teen jocks who rape a disabled girl can be found guilty.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
  • He has been charged with abuse of the elderly or a disabled adult.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In the battle that follows, the Lincoln is rammed and disabled.
    Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Aides who worked with disabled students start at around $19 and can earn up to about $24 an hour.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • David, his mom and a host of disabled people will be very grateful.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Beaudette's car left the road towards and came to a stop in a ditch, while Murphy's car was left disabled in the northbound lane.
    Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The tractor-trailer was disabled and partially in the roadway at the time of the wreck, Peoples said.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The majority of people on the wait lists are like the Rooks: older, disabled, or both.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • Osthoff is disabled and was discharged from the Navy in 2002, according to Patch.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • For those of us who are disabled and want a slower pace, my workshops have a lot of resting and slowing down.
    Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • But early the next morning, Janet found Pamela, 64, who was disabled and used a wheelchair, struggling to breathe.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 20 July 2024
  • Ricky looks out for his disabled father, a man who beat his kids, then left and never returned.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • Resident Tabitha White, 39, a disabled stay at home mom, brought her 12-year-old son to help Stewart.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • For now, disabled people are the first ones to test-drive new technology like this.
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But while driving in such a manner, something in the truck broke and the vehicle became disabled.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Westway had contracts that allowed the company to tow disabled cars to its lot and store them.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Dixon said her father, a disabled veteran in his 70s, was the surviving victim in the fire and lived at the home with her aunt and uncle.
    Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The vehicle was disabled due to damage sustained in the second crash and came to a stop at 1100 Central Parkway.
    Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 8 May 2024
  • And 5 out of 12 members of the Advisory Council are disabled as well.
    Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Experts have estimated that the health span and life span gap is about a decade or more—meaning people live the last of their lives disabled and in pain.
    Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 29 Nov. 2023
  • There’s now an RV lot and parking for disabled visitors.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
  • His most searing works were influenced by the birth of Oe’s mentally disabled son in 1963.
    Mari Yamaguchi, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Lindsay was 25 at the time and mentally disabled, Lomax said.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Short said airlines need to take better care of their disabled passengers.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • Once the art is inside the museum, the real work can begin: changing the way the public values and understands the lives of disabled artists.
    Jonathan Griffin, New York Times, 7 May 2024
  • Last year, the city council approved a larger tax exemption for those who are disabled or 65-years-old and older.
    Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2023

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