Example Sentences

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"It does feel cripplingly lonely when everyone has their own thing to do."

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

The costs of production are just cripplingly high.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025

Replacing those precious hours with private training can be done, but it’s cripplingly expensive.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024

"Axos has teamed up with nonbank lenders on loans to small businesses that carried cripplingly high double- and triple-digit effective annual interest rates," reported NBC, citing loan documents.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2022

“Dad’s weird because he’s afraid we’re going to be cripplingly and emotionally damaged,” Maya replied, her pen between her teeth as she flipped back and forth between her physics textbook and her lab book.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway