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Example sentences for "harming"

Lexicographically close words:
harmelesse; harmes; harmful; harmfully; harmfulness; harmless; harmlesse; harmlessly; harmlessness; harmonic
  1. The ideal drug, one which will make possible complete destruction of the cancer without harming the patient, is probably still to be devised.

  2. The dose can be computed to yield the maximum therapeutic effect without harming adjacent healthy tissues.

  3. They told the Indians of the island that they were hostile to the Spaniards, and that they had left their country for the sole purpose of harming us.

  4. It makes no difference that I am innocent even of the thought of harming my first wife.

  5. I am innocent even of the thought of harming that unhappy woman.

  6. With respect to young talents we must strictly follow Goethe's maxim, that we should often avoid harming error in order to avoid harming truth.

  7. The total lack of moral sense that distinguished Fissore explains why he should have sought to implicate three persons who had never wronged him for the pleasure of harming and enjoying the sufferings of others.

  8. The idaa of me master harming any one is too imposterous to be intertained by a fraa and inlightened people--a fraa and inlightened people, as I used to spell out in the newspapers at home.

  9. The idea of his harming anyone, is pre-pos-te-trous.

  10. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist but to the public, blinding them to all, but harming the artist not at all.

  11. The ground would freeze solid around them, but that instead of harming them would simply put the seal of safety on their abode.

  12. All in all it is a fine sport, this hunting of the wild creatures of the wood without harming them.

  13. Julko, I will ask you to bring him hither, not harming him, but blindfolding his eyes.

  14. And as Blagden says, it isn't as though we were harming him.

  15. I wonder, though, why anyone should be spying on him; he can't be harming anybody but himself.

  16. Antony himself returned from Italy to Greece and delayed there a very long time, satisfying his desires and harming the cities, to the end that they should be delivered to Sextus in the weakest possible condition.

  17. Who that was really harming the city have you indicted, and who that was really plotting against us have you brought to light?

  18. Next he sent away without harming in the least Bassus and Crispus and such others as did not care to share the campaign with him; for Staius he preserved the rank with which he had come there and besides entrusted to him the fleet.

  19. Zbyszko galloped up to him first, the German struck him upon the visor, but without breaking it or harming Zbyszko.

  20. As long as you do not return," replied Zbyszko, "I shall even prevent Jurand from harming him in order to prevent the Germans from injuring you on Zygfried's account.

  21. GILES COREY, seen as a specter, and accused of harming many, would make no plea to his indictment.

  22. But don't you see that you are harming me by staying here?

  23. Presently the Danes said that the whole force would retire into Mercia beyond Thames, harming none by the way, and keeping peace thereafter, if the conditions were honourable.

  24. So Odda brought his men ashore, and marched on Wareham and thence after the Danes, not meaning to fight unless some advantage showed itself, for they were too many, but to keep them from harming the country.

  25. Thence he proceeded against Palestine, in Syria, because its inhabitants were harming Phoenicia.

  26. Indeed, like all Brownies that are properly treated and let alone, so far was he from harming anybody that he was always on the look-out to do a good turn to those who needed his assistance.

  27. As they still dwindled, it seemed probable that the foxes were harming them.

  28. I came hither to Whalley on business of my own; meddling with no one; harming no one.

  29. Then if he be innocent of this last wickedness, as I believe him to be innocent, we shall learn the fact without harming him; always supposing that I go to him, undetected.

  30. They will not have the same motive for harming me.

  31. Who could have the heart to think of harming it?

  32. How stupid and ungrateful I must have been not to perceive that they were only playing with me,--that they had no intention of harming me.

  33. We could not injure the mother without harming the child also.

  34. Don't be frightened, dear, they will not dare to harm us; they will be afraid of the consequences of harming English people.

  35. It almost seems like it," he went on, "else how did it come that the one bullet passed under his belly and the other just touched his head without harming him?

  36. He will help you on, instead of harming you.

  37. I'd have saved him from it, sir, if I had been there, instead of harming him.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.