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Example sentences for "injure"

Lexicographically close words:
injudicious; injudiciously; injunction; injunctions; injunctive; injured; injurer; injures; injuria; injuriam
  1. She has friends powerful enough to avenge her if you dare to injure her.

  2. He wondered what reason Girasole might have to injure Ethel.

  3. On the contrary love, the active state of Ahimsa, requires you to resist the wrong-doer by dissociating yourself from him even though it may offend him or injure him physically.

  4. What I am not prepared to do to my blood-brother I would not do to an Englishman, I would not injure him to gain a kingdom.

  5. Never under any circumstances use hydrant water, as it contains impurities which will injure the battery, probably put it out of commission before its first charge.

  6. You injure our faith, and even make the Emperor himself averse to it.

  7. But are you so sure that your obstinacy will not injure this Siddha, whom you acknowledge that you still love, and that the Prince may not avenge your refusal on him?

  8. But when a government originates with, and derives its authority from the whole community, there is no reason why the community, if it withdraw that authority, should seek to injure any except the prince from whom it withdraws it.

  9. That Men climb from one step of Ambition to another, seeking at first to escape Injury and then to injure others.

  10. That men climb from one step of ambition to another, seeking at first to escape injury, and then to injure others XLVII.

  11. They pass through groupes of bees, injure and derange them; they communicate a kind of delirium, and these tumultuous motions raise the temperature to an insupportable degree.

  12. All you can do by endeavouring to detain her will be useless, and but injure yourself.

  13. I was injuring her; I was preparing to injure her.

  14. And publish it among all the people that whosoever shall insult a nightingale, or injure it, shall suffer death.

  15. The ex-emperor restored the lost trespass law, and explained that he had stolen it not to injure any one, but to further his political projects.

  16. Thinking to be facetious, I said: "But he might sit up all night and injure his health.

  17. But there is no reason to believe that we must resort to this drastic measure because there is no reason to believe that the proposed restrictions of child labour will in any way injure the parents.

  18. It is undoubtedly a fact that any system which injures the workers will in the long-run injure the trade of the country, but this is true only in the long-run, and the run is often very long.

  19. A man would eat freely of what was regarded as the incarnation of the god of another man, but the incarnation of his own particular god he would consider it death to injure or eat.

  20. It was in fact his idol, and he was careful never to injure it or treat it with contempt.

  21. He pointed out again and again the manner in which we were exposed to foreign hostility, and analyzed the designs of England, rightly detecting a settled policy on her part to injure and divide where she had failed to conquer.

  22. Pray believe that, and believe, also, that I never tried to injure you.

  23. I intended to injure you, though you will remember I saved your life that night by giving you a boat for escape across the bay to the 'Porcupine', which was then under way.

  24. This," said she, "is what I brought you for; take care not to injure it with the spade.

  25. There is an economic feature, too, in that poor and rough methods of work in both washing and ironing injure fabrics and shorten their term of usableness.

  26. Only enough of these should be used to allow the soap to do its work, since they may injure fabric and the skin of the worker.

  27. We seek a method that will be thorough, that will not injure the fabric, and that will economize the muscular energy of the worker.

  28. When we can make them all sanitary, and when methods are used that will not injure the fabric, we can safely put this kind of work out of the house, but at present many commercial laundries are unsanitary and ruin the clothes.

  29. The feeling that one is unable to injure anyone is worse than the feeling that one is unable to do good, because to do harm is far easier and simpler.

  30. I only wish to tell you that if you cannot help beating her, then beat her carefully and always remember that you may injure her health or that of the child.

  31. But I do assure you, with all sincerity and solemnity, that I have her welfare wholly at heart, and that I would not injure her by the least shadow of blame in the opinion of any human being.

  32. He might injure his daughter by his attempt to serve her.

  33. For another, you're injuring Sisily--you're doing more than injure her.

  34. I loved her far too well to injure her or her child.

  35. Whilst the two Jewish courtiers were striving to injure each other, the enemies of the Jews were busily at work to imperil their reputation and the existence of all the Castilian congregations.

  36. He represented to the Spanish rulers that the Jews should be strictly isolated, as their intercourse with the Christian population was calculated to injure the true faith.

  37. The queen-regent had no cause to injure this Jewish notable; only Paul could desire his ruin, because he was the mainstay of his opponents and the leader of those who held him up to contempt.

  38. He could not exterminate either, for the Hussites had courage and arms, and the Jews were an indispensable source of money; but whenever it was sought to injure them he gladly assisted.

  39. Therefore, it was easy for their enemies to injure them.

  40. On account of their rivalry, these two favorites sought to injure each other, and thus they and their co-religionists incurred the hatred of the people.

  41. An Indian with some horses was sent off to Kettle Falls with instructions for Mr Dears to get the potatoes put in a pit and well covered up so that the frost cannot injure them, that they may serve for seed next year.

  42. Thus the image of the unknown person whom I am about to injure brings my zeal to a sudden check.

  43. This is what constitutes true courage; I am the only person who can injure myself.

  44. In what way, therefore, shall I injure her?

  45. The gold of the dead Burgundy," he added, "would injure the morals of Switzerland more irretrievably than ever his sword did their bodies.

  46. Have you reason to think that Mrs. Carnaby would like to injure you?

  47. He, her husband's friend, would keep the only secret which could now injure her.

  48. Irritated by self-consciousness, revolting against a misinterpretation which would injure her vanity, though it was not likely to aim at her honour, Alma had recourse to fiction.

  49. But I know for certain that you have tried to injure me by telling extraordinary falsehoods.

  50. I'm only afraid she may injure her health.

  51. If allowed to stand, the liquid would injure instead of doing good, and even if artificially warmed would not be so beneficial as the new milk.

  52. Into one of these the Monomaniac was placed with considerable difficulty, everything with which he could injure himself having been previously removed.

  53. The incision was made in the centre of the seed, but not deep enough to enter or injure its heart.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    injure them; injured tone