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Example sentences for "bruised"

Lexicographically close words:
broyled; brudder; brudders; brugge; bruise; bruiser; bruisers; bruises; bruising; bruit
  1. Was never this thing to me,' he said, 'Though with bruised poppies my feet are red!

  2. Nagkabay-ug ang bábuy sa kataas sa ámung byáhi, The pig was all bruised and shaken after our long journey.

  3. Napaksut ang íyang túhud sa pagkadam-ag níya, His knees were bruised when he stumbled.

  4. B1256] for the body to be badly bruised due to severe maulings.

  5. He smoothed my wrists where they had been bruised the day before, and got some ointment which he rubbed around my neck.

  6. When his body was discovered it was much bruised and battered.

  7. I strove to rise, but I found myself so weak and my legs so terribly bruised that I could not get up; on which some of them came and lifted me off, and laid me on the sand, for I was unable to stand.

  8. Blackberry Pudding+ is made in the same manner as Plain Suet Pudding, except that 1 quart well washed and floured blackberries are stirred into the batter; serve with hard sauce, into which 1 cup bruised blackberries may be stirred.

  9. His rider was half-hearted in his efforts, and was watching the forward rider, who had been severely thrown with the bird's fall, and badly bruised by the kicking and threshing.

  10. However, the shells which fell near us were of light weight, and would not have bruised us much with heavy clothing on.

  11. Every Icarus who attempts to overcome the force of gravity, which conquers planets, and propel himself through the air by any sort of apparatus, will always finish the trip with a wiser but badly bruised head.

  12. The young man told himself that he was alone in the brush foothills, with a lame horse, and a body (his own) so bruised and battered that it seemed to belong to somebody else.

  13. When raw oysters are served on a table, at which there are gentlemen only, some shallots, chopped fine and gently bruised in a coarse towel, are served with them, on a separate dish.

  14. Or with shallots chopped fine, and then bruised in a coarse towel.

  15. Put four ounces of butter in a saucepan on the fire, and when melted add two or three tablespoonfuls of the soft part of bread, bruised in a coarse towel; stir for about one minute, salt to taste, and use.

  16. She could feel the damp, cold drops of perspiration standing out like beads on the white forehead and the bruised cheek.

  17. Bess lifted the bruised and bleeding head into her lap.

  18. Perspiration streamed from their faces as they chafed his arms and hands and bathed the bruised and swollen ankle.

  19. One may cherish a rose-bud, but let him attempt to open the petals before they are formed and grown into rose-leaves, he will discover only bruised and broken fragrance in his hand.

  20. Of the bruised seeds is also made a cooling drink, much used in Nicaragua.

  21. In Central America the stone grinders, with which they bruised it down, are almost invariably found in the ancient graves, having been buried with the ashes of the dead, as an indispensable article for their outfit for another world.

  22. I entered his office the next morning, that my black eye and bruised visage might testify against the ungrateful man; "thee will not object to my committing the fellow now?

  23. Bruised and crushed in water, the leaves and stems form Chinese paper, the finer qualities of which are only improved by a mixture of raw cotton and by more careful pounding.

  24. How could he escape being killed, or, at the very least, badly bruised and cut?

  25. Plummer, at their last meeting, had stated his intention of going abroad for a bit to mend his bruised heart: and it was a little disconcerting to a sensitive girl to find her victim popping up again like this.

  26. In a sense, it is a ruin, and ruins are always soothing to the bruised soul.

  27. There was something about the library with its sombre half tones that soothed his bruised spirit.

  28. The cock of the pistol fortunately broke in going off whilst the muzzle was close to my head, and I escaped without other injury than a bruised hand, the complete use of which I did not recover for some months.

  29. A mixture of bruised wheat, chopped meat, milk and curds, boiled into a thick pulpy mass, over which melted butter is poured.

  30. Dorimedont appeared late at night in torn clothes, without hat or cane, his face bruised and smeared with blood.

  31. He followed their example, and applied the nettles to his bruised sides.

  32. Sometimes policemen brought in persons bound with ropes, bruised and bellowing with pain.

  33. Hearing his voice Sam ran away and Fred, bruised and smarting, with his books torn and his clothes, too, went over to his father.

  34. Blinded, bruised and half drowned, he felt himself dashed against the cliff.

  35. How reluctantly do their bruised hearts acknowledge the sad truth!

  36. She had a dreadful headache, and nothing afforded her the least relief, till we bruised the leaves of the Poppy, and bound them on her temples, and then she became quiet, and fell into a gentle sleep.

  37. The snowballs were packed so tightly that they did not break on striking, though they were thrown with force, and Kirk was considerably bruised by them.

  38. His bruised and lacerated body, confined in an unhealthy cell, has received little care.

  39. I will put no finger to your work"--it seemed as if she would be crushing that bruised heart.

  40. He felt bruised and shattered, and there was a dark line under his eyes which Rosamond had not seen before.

  41. Already the knowledge that Dorothea had chosen Mr. Casaubon had bruised his attachment and relaxed its hold.

  42. Will had bruised her pride too sorely for her to feel any compunction towards him and Dorothea: her own injury seemed much the greater.

  43. For she realised for the first time that night that her sympathy and imagination had been exercised almost wholly for Van Shaw, broken and bruised in that awful fall over the cliff.

  44. Lay aside all bruised potatoes for immediate use.

  45. You can plant the mold in the bruised apple just as you did on bread and watch its rapid spread through the apple.

  46. You learn from this the need of preventing bruised or decayed apples from coming in contact with healthy fruit.

  47. If you feel that you must marry again, go slowly, and wait until the bruised tendrils of your heart have healed and are rooted in healthy soil.

  48. Every time you tried to spread your wings you were bruised by bars.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bruised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anguished; cut; grieved; hurt; injured; marred; pained; wounded