able-bodied
Example Sentences
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It could revolutionize welfare by testing aptitude, providing individual training, and matching able-bodied welfare recipients with available jobs.
At the final selection, I, along with all the other able-bodied souls, was shunted to one side, headed for the newly built Plaszow forced-labor camp.
From Literature
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It was heartening to know that airline employees, albeit powerless, know about able-bodied passengers gaming system to skip the lines.
The flight attendant explained to Gomez that many able-bodied passengers request wheelchairs for “the VIP experience”—an escort down the jetway that lets them skip the lines and gives them first crack at overhead space.
Back in Chicago, they’re going to need every able-bodied person of any age they can find to help pull the wagon.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.