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Example sentences for "hurting"

Lexicographically close words:
hurted; hurteth; hurtful; hurtfull; hurtfulness; hurtle; hurtled; hurtles; hurtling; hurts
  1. By skilful play he disarmed the quarrelsome fellow and ended the duel without hurting the stranger, as if it were all done in sport.

  2. By taking care and plenty of time, he managed to place the end of a rail under the hog without hurting it.

  3. The landscape was an aching, eye-hurting desolation.

  4. And yet, ere I fainted, with a sailor's instinct I dragged my body on and up among the cruel hurting rocks to faint finally beyond the reach of the sea.

  5. It just stays there in the jacket, not hurting or anything, just waiting for you to come back.

  6. Stubbornly he placed his shiny, large, hurting right foot on the running-board.

  7. After his first roving look, his eyes fixed, with an acquisitive gleam at variance with his helplessness, upon something protruding from the inside pocket of a coat that lay upon the ground near his hurting head.

  8. He wasn't given to headaches from any pace of his horse, but a sudden hurting sensation had shot through his brain.

  9. I was standing near and saw it all, but the cross tired little Dovey thought he was hurting her brother, and giving a squeal she threw herself on Big Chief's back.

  10. Dear Cassowary, Big Chief was not hurting the children.

  11. All these can be nailed on the heads of the actors with small tacks without hurting their feelings.

  12. The first example we shall now give is how to knock your knuckles on the edge of a marble mantel-piece or other hard substance without hurting them.

  13. You are hurting me," she said in defiance.

  14. But tell me, somebody has been hurting you--frightening you.

  15. I have been hurting your heart all the time without knowing it.

  16. The nature of wrathfulness tendeth to hurting those you are angry with.

  17. All law-suits, and contentions, and hurting of others, which are inconsistent with loving them as ourselves, are forbidden in the gospel.

  18. What if I take it from him, but to save him from hurting his body with it: as if I steal poison from one that intended to kill himself by it; or take a sword from a drunken man that would hurt himself; or a knife from a melancholy man?

  19. That it be the hurting of another, in his body, liberty, relations, estate, or reputation.

  20. Take heed lest an uncharitable, hurting spirit do prevail, under the name of holy zeal.

  21. Anger hath a hurting inclination, and malice is a fixed anger, and revenge is the fruit of both or either of them.

  22. As hating and hurting their neighbours is the mark of the children of the devil, (John viii.

  23. He said that it was hurting him, the fact that the colored people did not have the same rights as the white ones, and this is my opinion also, you see.

  24. You know, this affair actually is hurting me quite a lot, particularly right now in Haiti, because President Duvalier--I have a contract with the Government.

  25. That's correct, because being of the same nationality, I thought he was hurting all of our emigre here in Dallas.

  26. If he allowed himself to be friends or be close, then he opened the possibility of the friend hurting him, and I had this feeling about him, that he couldn't permit or stand such hurt.

  27. He shifted his position in the berth, and a twinge of pain passed through his foot, hurting horribly.

  28. A great pang of pity went through the man, hurting him physically.

  29. Shurochka withdrew her hand, though not hastily, but at once and slowly, as though she were afraid of hurting him.

  30. It is no use to treat them like young ladies and being afraid of hurting them.

  31. But I thought your plant--" Charley spoke carefully as if fearful of hurting Roger.

  32. But he's always losing his temper and hurting your children," exclaimed Mrs. Moore.

  33. I have to be straightforward now, and I know you will try to make it easier for me, even if I'm hurting you.

  34. Didn't it strike you that you were hurting him?

  35. Beyond a numbed feeling his arm was not hurting him very much.

  36. Macfarlane tells me that, not content with getting a rib broken, you go about carrying one end of a stretcher with a woman on it across ground where it was difficult, if not impossible, to move without ricking and hurting yourself.

  37. Light a port fire or two, else, in spite of their white head-gear, we shall be hurting our friends.

  38. You are looking very white, Nat," Myra said; "I am afraid that your side is hurting you terribly.

  39. He told me the following story: "A club of young rakes, of whom I was one, had a casino at the Zuecca; we passed many a pleasant hour there without hurting anyone.

  40. Dear reader, the next chapter will tell you how my magic undertaking ended, and perhaps you will enjoy a good laugh at my expense, but you need not be afraid of hurting my feelings.

  41. He considers himself as deputed to promote the publick good, and to preserve his constituents, with the rest of his countrymen, not only from being hurt by others, but from hurting themselves.

  42. Jack's conscience was hurting her very badly during that week.

  43. It is true that, following Jack's example, the majority of the Lower Fifth did refrain from hurting her feelings by making unkind remarks.

  44. I'm afraid you're hurting yourself," said she.

  45. Every animal is grateful for kindness and petting, and they wouldn't THINK of hurting a person that pets them.

  46. Cyril, impeded by Jane, could do nothing without hurting her, for she clung round his legs with the strength of despair.

  47. He could do so at last without any fear of hurting Lionel.

  48. Boys who are very young, have small reed spears made for them by their parents, the ends of which are padded with grass, to prevent them from hurting each other.

  49. It is extraordinary to see a party of women plunge into the water on a cold dark night, and swim and dive about amongst logs, stumps, roots, and weeds without ever hurting themselves, and seldom failing to obtai the object of their search.

  50. Before, it had been a frightened hate, a gnawing, hurting thing deep down in his heart.

  51. They made me wear such ugly, hurting things, and then they made me dance!


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hurting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aching; acute; afflicted; afflictive; agonized; agonizing; atrocious; bankruptcy; biting; breakage; breakdown; collapse; crucified; cruel; damage; destruction; detriment; dilapidation; discomfort; distress; distressed; distressing; dolor; excruciating; gnawing; grave; hard; harm; harrowed; harrowing; harsh; hurt; hurtful; hurting; infringement; injury; inroad; lacerated; loss; maiming; malaise; martyred; mischief; misery; mutilation; pained; painful; piercing; poignant; pungent; racked; racking; ruination; sabotage; scathe; severe; sharp; shooting; sore; spasmodic; stabbing; stinging; suffering; tender; tormented; tormenting; tortured; torturous; twisted; weakening; wounded; wrung