noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
use
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Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch .
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He can be compulsive, full of tics that also are used as crutches .
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Without another word she turned and made her way upstairs, using the crutch only as an added safety precaution.
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I knew some patients who learned to take a few struggling steps using braces and crutches and never got any further.
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Among them were women between 70 and 80 years of age, some of them using crutches .
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Anything longer-and unless part of it is very familiar to us already we have to use crutches .
walk
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His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder.
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They offered little hope that he would ever walk without crutches .
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He talked and laughed a lot, and practised walking with his crutch .
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Now he walks on crutches and holds a responsible position with a magazine in New York.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alcoholics use drinking as a crutch .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He came down to Highbury on crutches, so grave was the extent of his injury.
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He put his hand down to the crutch of the camiknickers and he fumbled with the little buttons.
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Hospital officials cleaned and bandaged his wound and sent him home with a pair of crutches, Ross said.
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It took three years of rehabilitation, but Meidl once again walked without the aid of crutches.
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Some came in wheelchairs or on crutches.
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Volunteers, sometimes wearing blue lapel pins in the shape of crutches, raised money in numerous and often ingenious ways.
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With a shout, Silver threw his crutch through the air.