It would not be healthy, if it were badly nourished; for bad food injures the body.
And as to the elaborate dressing of food, I need hardly say that instead of aiding nutrition it injures the body and breeds diseases in it.
Noah, Moses, and the Prophets taught that he who kills, maims, or injureshis neighbors does evil.
He who attacks another and injures him, kindles in the other a feeling of hatred, the root of every evil.
It strains the backs, and seriously injures the bindings.
It also injures the paper of the volumes by over-heating, and weakening the tenacity of the leaves held together by the glue on the back, besides drying to an extreme the leather, till it cracks or crumbles under the heat.
In these cases, no attempt to force the memory should be made, nor should the attention be kept long on the subject, for this course only injures the faculty, and leads to confusion of mind.
When One injures another, the injured turns round and injures the injurer.
The eldest brother who injures his younger brothers ceases to be regarded as the eldest and forfeits his share in the family property and deserves to be checked by the king.
The sense is this; one, while endued with a human body injures another, the consequences of that injury the doer will suffer in his human body.
War injures everybody else, and in the end itinjures them, too.
Arsenic produces a great waste in the manufacture of iron, and when alloyed with it, injures or destroys its capability of being welded.
Manganese in small quantities renders iron harder, but injures none of its good qualities.
The Statesman who stands the longest is he who does nothing and injures no one.
The Statesman who falls is he who does much, and thus injures many.
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness; and whateverinjures society at large, or any individual in it, this is my measure of iniquity.
Qui jure suo utitur, neminem lædit=--He who enjoys his own right injures no man.
Hate injures no one; it is contempt that casts men down.
For which Reason I always lay it down as a Rule, that an indiscreet Man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the former will only attack his Enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the otherinjures indifferently both Friends and Foes.
This certainly ought to be the Purpose of every man who appears in Publick; and whoever does not proceed upon that Foundation, injures his Country as fast as he succeeds in his Studies.
Dry in a well-covered shed or tent where there is a free circulation of air, and never use any preparation, such as alum and salt, as it only injures them for market.
There is a kind of half-way rectitude in the world which never scruples at the means of any success so long as it injures no other, but which recoils from the thought of any advantage obtained at another's cost and detriment.
Indeed, that nominal significance, that allegorical intention, often injuresthe real significance, the perceptible truth.
But this no more affects the will to live, of whose manifestation the individual is, as it were, only a particular example or specimen, than the death of an individual injures the whole of nature.
The watery, dark-colored pulp into which the husk of the nut is converted when the maggots begin to feed penetrates the shell of the nut and injures the kernel by staining it and imparting a strong flavor.
Dustings of fine ashes or soot are scarcely less effective, but salt must not be used, for it injures the plants and does not hurt the beetle.
To allow them to spread and root promiscuously is the bad way; it injures the plants, makes the bed disorderly, and does not produce good runners.
Whilst Darwinistic naturalism surely injures the moral principles, the Darwinistic theories are friendly to them, if they, as mere scientific theories, restrain themselves within the limits of natural science.
It is best to partly cook the vegetables before adding to the stock, as much boilinginjures the flavoring of the soup.
Serve at once before the vinegar injures the crispness of the vegetables.
Thus early he may be made to feel that all lives touch his own, and that his indulgence in selfish passion not only harms himself, but is the more blameworthy in that it injures others.
Starching thread lace injures the texture, (causing the threads to break,) and gives it a hard, stiff appearance.
It injures no colour, but rather brightens all, and gives the silk just the right degree of stiffness, besides making it very clean and fresh.
And since this is, in most cases, a weapon that injures its wielder far more than his opponent, it is not effective.
The suppression injures nobody; it only puts the readers of the translation slightly off the scent, and gives an imperfect article instead of none.
The fact that races long submitted to the action of alcohol have become relatively resistant to it, therefore, does not in itself answer the question of whether alcohol injures the human germ-plasm.
Obviously such material can not legitimately be used to prove that the use of alcohol by parents injures the heredity of their children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "injures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
