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Example sentences for "disabling"

Lexicographically close words:
disability; disable; disabled; disablement; disables; disabuse; disabused; disaccord; disadvantage; disadvantaged
  1. The law for disabling Landgrave James Colleton from holding any authority civil or military in Carolina, was repealed, and strict orders were sent out to the grand council, to support the power and prerogative of the proprietors.

  2. Heatstroke and a malarial infection were among these disabling agencies.

  3. Another plan for disabling ships was suggested by a man who remained for some time unknown.

  4. The President was better yesterday; it is neuralgia in the right shoulder, disabling his arm.

  5. They say it is neuralgia in the shoulder, disabling his right arm.

  6. Heyliger, our agent at Nassau, sends an account of the firing into and disabling the British steamer Margaret and Jessee by the United States steamer Rhode Island, within a half mile of shore.

  7. A heavy shot from one of our batteries ranged through the Galena from stem to stern, making frightful slaughter, and disabling the ship; and the whole fleet turned about and steamed down the river!

  8. He could do this only by disabling Princeton's adversaries.

  9. Some time is made fit by the temper of men's bodies: the morning hours are the best to most, and to some rather the evening; and to all, the time when the body is freest from pain and disabling weaknesses.

  10. The fumes, aided by a favorable wind, floated backward, poisoning and disabling over an extended area those who fell under their effect.

  11. Ankylosis# is not so disabling at the shoulder as at other joints, as the mobility of the scapula on the chest wall largely compensates for the fixation of the joint.

  12. It is an extremely disabling and unsightly deformity.

  13. In all the miscellaneous activity of the Parliament for the detection and disabling of "Malignants," there had been no instrument more effective or more commonly used.

  14. The hounds several times surrounded her; but she fought her way with so much strength and fury that she always escaped, after killing many of the dogs and disabling some of the men.

  15. That it pays policy-holders =$4,000 a Day= for Losses by Death and Disabling Injury.

  16. That ONE IN NINE of all insured under its Accident Policies have received Fatal or disabling injuries.

  17. Some hindering and disabling depravity in the human condition prevents attainment of the moral ideal.

  18. This customary defence of disabling the witnesses for enmity, although it was mostly blind groping to identify them, was sometimes successful.

  19. About this time, Fray Juan de Madrid was tried before the tribunal of Toledo; there was much adverse evidence in full detail, and the only defence lay in disabling the witnesses.

  20. Mortification or anger brought on a stroke of paralysis which, disabling my opponent, put an end to our controversy.

  21. These things the English knew not, who write that they had carried away the lantern from one of the Spanish ships, the stern from another, and sore mauled the third very much disabling her.

  22. He realized that any movement on his part would draw the fire of the insolent intruder, and he saw that strategy was far preferable to open violence, since the latter was likely to end only in killing or disabling him.

  23. But the blow was not a disabling one; he had aimed it at his head, but the wary savage had bent on one side.

  24. A shot seemed to go crashing through my boat, and a dense mass of water rolled in from the torpedo, filling the launch, and completely disabling her.

  25. At the same instant a dense volume of water from the torpedo came rushing into the launch, utterly disabling her.

  26. He interfered with Lee and Jackson, sometimes to almost a disabling extent.

  27. He never learnt where control ended and disabling interference began.

  28. Here, after much disabling interference at the hands of Stanton, Hunter was succeeded by Sheridan, whom Grant himself directed with consummate skill.

  29. Just as the last charge had been made, General Johnston, riding out in an opening, was first struck by a fragment of shell, thereby disabling him for further duty upon the field for a long time.

  30. Hancock had fallen from his horse, shot through the side with a minnie ball, disabling him for a long time.

  31. Major Dan Miller had received a disabling wound in some of the former battles and never returned.

  32. Meanwhile a second measure, called the "Disabling Act," had received the sanction of both Houses, 1678.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disabling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.