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Example sentences for "bruise"

Lexicographically close words:
browt; broyled; brudder; brudders; brugge; bruised; bruiser; bruisers; bruises; bruising
  1. My landlord was so pleased with the present he had received from Sophia, that he rather rejoiced in than regretted his bruise or his scratches.

  2. We are Christians here: and we only gather the reeds of the river to bruise them and break them, and thrust them, songless and dead, in the name of our Lord.

  3. You have the devil that bred you in you, no doubt; but it shall go hard if I cannot conquer him when I bruise your body and break your will.

  4. Watching her more closely, he noticed for the first time the stains of blood upon her shoulder, and the bruise on her chest, where the rent in her linen left it bare.

  5. To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.

  6. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.

  7. One class is still open to me; the brazen, arrogant circles of wealth into which a double-fisted achiever can bruise his way.

  8. Take Egremony and bruise it small, and then fry it with Sheep suet, and Honey, of each a like quantity, and lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the Fundament, and it will heale very faire and well.

  9. An excellent Oyntment for any Bruise or Ache.

  10. And, too, after had such a bruise on my ribs with a fall, that I am yet unable to move or turn myself in bed.

  11. He slipt comeing downe the stone stayres at the palace at Sarum, which bruise caused his death.

  12. A corresponding wound or bruise was found on the body, or a rent in the garments, of the accused.

  13. The God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.

  14. A cut or bruise heals much quicker if it is soaked ten or fifteen minutes in cool water, then wrapped in six or eight folds of wet rag, and covered with a piece of dry cloth.

  15. When she dug potatoes she took pains not to cut or bruise them; and in winter she protected them from frost in a hole under her hearth.

  16. Beyond the slight bruise on the forehead, evidently caused by the fall upon the gravel, there is no mark whatever," the doctor answered.

  17. Certainly not; neither was the bruise upon the forehead, which had, no doubt, been caused by the fall upon the gravel.

  18. She had been crying, and there was an ugly bruise on her cheek.

  19. Did he give you that bruise on your face, Mrs. Kinneth?

  20. An invaluable remedy for a sprain or bruise is wormwood boiled in vinegar and applied hot, with enough cloths wrapped around it to keep the sprain moist.

  21. Lay it on a flat plate and bruise it with the blade of a knife.

  22. In either case, carve them very neatly, and strip every particle of skin and fat from the legs, wings and breasts; bruise the bodies well, and put them with the skin and other trimmings into a very clean stewpan.

  23. Bruise and pound a few leaves of spinach in a thin muslin bag until you can express the juice.

  24. Bruise part of the coral in a mortar, and also an equal quantity of the meat.

  25. I hope he'll bruise all his knuckles and break all his finger nails trying to open the box, and still not make the slightest impression!

  26. We shall break our collar bones and bruise our shins doing strenuous Alpine stunts, and we shall turn a disapproving eye upon Russia and incidentally expose a few Nihilists.

  27. What a poor, impotent wretch He's made me--a thing to bruise its useless hands beating the door that will never open!

  28. These were small things, and nice distinctions, that a strong man should dwell on them and bruise his heart for its wickedness.

  29. Is it not enough that the strong should not wantonly bruise the weak nor deal unfairly by him?

  30. Here is a bad bruise on your right cheek, and another on the temple just above.

  31. Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain: Say where and when Their fight, what stroke shall bruise the victor's heel.

  32. Between thee and the woman I will put Enmity, and between thine and her seed; Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel.

  33. This ponder, that all nations of the earth Shall in his seed be blessed: By that seed Is meant thy great Deliverer, who shall bruise The Serpent's head; whereof to thee anon Plainlier shall be revealed.

  34. We refer to the marvellous fact set forth by the Holy Ghost in the prophet Isaiah, "It pleased Jehovah to bruise Him.

  35. We have said that, for our present purpose, we shall merely refer to one special point in the death of Christ, and that is the fact that it pleased Jehovah to bruise Him.

  36. Touch those things and bruise them, as--as marriage would touch and bruise them--and she would be a mere fragment of stale vegetation.

  37. The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own roots.

  38. Thought was arrested by utter bewilderment, now its old narrow pathway was closed, and affection seemed to have died under the bruise that had fallen on its keenest nerves.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bruise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; anguish; assault; bash; batter; beat; blemish; bruise; buffet; chafe; crush; cut; discoloration; graze; grieve; hurt; injure; maltreat; manhandle; mar; mark; mash; masticate; maul; mistreat; molest; mouse; outrage; pain; pierce; pound; prick; pulp; rough; savage; scrape; scratch; sore; squash; stab; sting; wound