Sentences with injure
in·jure
I i - A number of bombs have exploded, seriously injuring at least five people. [VERB noun]
- To injure one's hand.
- He expressed indignation at the attempt made to injure the racehorse, and said that every effort would be made to arrest the men responsible.
- The Dutchman is able to withstand cold that could kill or seriously injure other people.
- To injure a friend's feelings.
- And blasting with noise is not the same thing as a real intent to injure someone.
- Provocation sent the message that sometimes people are not expected to control their impulses to kill or seriously injure someone else.
- His emotions and the power of his body may injure his beloved.
- Which have been known to attack and injure people.
- Injure implies the marring of the appearance, health, soundness, etc. of a person or thing [injured pride]; harm more strongly suggests the pain or distress caused [he wouldn't harm a fly]; damage stresses the loss, as in value, usefulness, etc., resulting from an injury [damaged goods]; hurt implies a wounding physically or emotionally or a causing of any kind of harm or damage [the rumors hurt his business]; to impair something is to cause it to deteriorate in quality or to lessen in value, strength, etc. [impaired hearing]; spoil implies such serious impairment of a thing as to destroy its value, usefulness, etc. [the canned food was spoiled]