How to Use quadriplegic in a Sentence

quadriplegic

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• Langevin was first elected to Congress in 2000 and became the first quadriplegic to serve in the US House.
  — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
• The two-day race weekend marks the first time Schmidt, who’s a quadriplegic, has entered a race since his crash more than 20 years ago.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2020
• Twelve people died in the May 2019 mass shooting in the Virginia Beach city offices, and Britt was left a quadriplegic.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
• Michelle Bain’s mother is a 64-year-old quadriplegic who lives at Alden Estates of Naperville.
  — Joe Mahr, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• Colorful pine cone wreaths are fashioned by Lisa Nussbaum, a quadriplegic who has enough use of her hands to be able to paint.
  — cleveland, 6 June 2022
• Rick Hoyt was born a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy and cannot walk or talk.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• Her doctor warned that a car accident or bad fall could leave her a quadriplegic.
  — Amy Wray and Rachael Scott, CNN, 3 Oct. 2020
• But for deFiebre, a quadriplegic, manual wheels are a strain on her arms.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021
• These could be people that are living on ventilators or quadriplegics.
  — Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• Langevin is the first quadriplegic elected to Congress.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 19 Jan. 2022
• Rick Hoyt was born in 1962, a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, unable to control his limbs or speak.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• Darryl Stingley, who spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair as a quadriplegic, died when Stingley Jr., was 6 years old.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 28 Apr. 2022
• In 1999, while wrestling for the WWE, Drozdov was involved in a tragic ring accident that rendered him a quadriplegic.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 30 June 2023
• The young man, who was already deaf, was rendered a quadriplegic in a 2011 car accident and was placed on a ventilator.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
• Jan Williamson, 66, fled her house in the Northridge neighborhood along with her husband and 40-year-old daughter Leanne, a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2022
• When Scott was six, 14-year-old Dean became a quadriplegic as a result of a diving accident, but that didn’t stop him from being a major force in the life of the Lobos’ head coach.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2020
• But a year later, he was rendered quadriplegic when a car struck his bike during an Orange County triathlon.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2021
• That was the year Ricochet got on a surfboard with local quadriplegic surfer Patrick Ivison.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• The Chicagoan has been training for a year by swimming in Lake Michigan, where the accident that left him quadriplegic — paralyzed in all four limbs — occurred.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
• He was hospitalized for weeks and diagnosed as a quadriplegic, losing movement from the top of his rib cage down.
  — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• Yet for 20 seconds, a 57-year-old quadriplegic had produced an electro-cardiogram that resembled the peaks of a fine-toothed comb.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• Friday's indictments include charges for Murdaugh's handling of the aftermath of a wreck that caused a deaf man to end up quadriplegic.
  — Jeffrey Collins, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2022
• Michael Hickson was a 46-year-old African American resident of Texas, a quadriplegic with a brain injury.
  — Lynn Varco, Star Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
• The recall was prompted by an accident in which a rider became a quadriplegic after a quick-release lever on the front wheel came into contact with the disc brake.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2015
• Yovanna is quadriplegic since a traffic accident more than two decades ago, and has been in and out of the hospital for more than half her life with complications.
  — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2021
• Langevin, who is the first quadriplegic elected to Congress, ended up having to get a staff member to bring a different wheelchair up from his home in North Providence to the airport.
  — Tim Craig, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• Pedro Ventura lives in Los Angeles and is a quadriplegic because of a spinal cord injury.
  — Amy Ettinger, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• The injuries from the gunshot would render Sadler quadriplegic and brain-damaged, said Britannica.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2023
• Christ, of Jarrettsville a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, shared his experience at John Archer through his mother, Kim.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2022
• In the earliest stage of parenthood, so many of the demands are physical — the baby needs to be fed, burped, cleaned, dressed, rocked — and Basile, a quadriplegic who has only limited movement in his arms, can’t feed, burp or rock the baby.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 16 June 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024