When the insect is too near the head of the pin, it is difficult to fix it in your cabinet without bending the wire; and there is danger, without great care, of injuring the specimen when you put it in or take it out.
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, one of those who had helped in restoring the law, took the prophet under his protection and prevented the crowd from injuring him, but some others were not able to escape the popular fury.
It was impossible for so violent and so prolonged a crisis to take place without in some degree injuring the prestige of the empire.
It may be and often is completely decayed, without injuring the flow of sap or the life of the tree for many years.
At first the phrase of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, which declared that landscape was no subject for painting because it had no soul, held painters altogether back from injuring their reputation by such pictures.
His pictures showed that he had been a zealous student of the great Dutch artists, and that it was his pride to handle his brush in their manner, expressing as much as possible without injuring pictorial effect.
He exerted his authority, by injuring and insulting the more substantial citizens, with whom he lived in a state of hostility, and who were every moment exposed to the most outrageous violences from him and his licentious emissaries.
But there is another power still more important than either the judicial or legislative; to wit, the power of injuring or serving by immediate force and violence, for which it is difficult to obtain redress in courts of justice.
Ruth was left lying prostrate on the ground, and when Jack got up to her, he found a spear had struck her on the shoulder, but fortunately stuck in her wide cloak, without injuring her, though her terror and distress were great.
As far as their ignorant and dull nature will allow, we have reason to think that gratitude or policy would prevent them from injuring us or our property.
Although you cannot save me from the misery of doubting in my last hour, you can save me from injuring another in your good opinion.
He had also instructed them to make prisoners of the assailants, if possible, without injuring them.
In removing part of the palpebral conjunctiva, care must be taken to avoid injuring the cartilage of the tarsus; and, in the lower lid, not to take away too large a portion, lest entropion should occur during cicatrisation.
Some force is required, but is not hurtful, provided it be made in the proper direction, so as to remove the obstruction in the duct without injuring the bones and other parts in the neighbourhood.
The trocar is then pushed on gently, and should penetrate but a very short distance, for fear of injuring the important parts at the bottom of the cavity.
There is not the least danger of injuring the latter if care be taken not to depend too exclusively, nor to bear with too much force upon it.
In some cases, particularly when gangrene is imminent, and when the ulceration is extensive, there is danger of materially injuring the glans, if attempts at reduction are injudiciously persevered in.
And we who defraud four million citizens of their rights are injuring ourselves vastly more than we are injuring the black man whom we rob.
We now claim to receive the same from you, and protest against your rewarding us for benefiting you by our vote by injuring us by yours.
On the contrary, your ideal of fair dealing is based on the principle that, if you do not injure others, you need not risk your own fortunes in preventing others from injuring you.
They said a good deal in praise of themselves, but nowhere denied that they are injuring our allies and Peloponnese.
We accordingly rode along between the town and the river, passing by a creek or harbour, in which I observed twenty large canoes, most of them fully loaded, and covered with mats, to prevent the rain from injuring the goods.
FRITZ-- Who ever heard of them Injuring a man because his life was bad, If his Faith was good?
Who ever heard of them Injuring a man because his life was bad, If his Faith was good?
Fouche never regarded a benefit in any other light than as the means of injuring his benefactor.
That is a more secure mode of obtaining peace on good conditions than the system of injuring ourselves for the sake of committing a greater injury upon the enemy.
He had therefore never been able to take advantage of his victories to re-establish Poland without injuring the interests of neutral powers or of his allies.
I was not only injuring my health and spending a great deal of money, but I was setting a bad example.
Much of the menagerie consisted of animals of which I owned the duplicate, and hence could easily spare them without injuring the variety in my zoölogical collection.
The men, native cavalry, had ridden off without injuring their officers, but the fanatical people of the place had killed many of the residents and fired their bungalows.
For my admonitions, he requited me with ill language, disgracing himself and injuring the affairs of the company.
Which question was rather doubtful to me, yet I answered that his majesty would take measures to prevent the Hollanders from injuring them.
With a small spoon scoop out as much of the pulp and juice as possible without injuring the shape.
It is very difficult to bake a large loaf so as to insure the escape of all the carbonic acid gas, and to cook the starch sufficiently without injuring the crust, besides entailing an unnecessary waste of fuel.
We should not be justified ininjuring a stranger in order to benefit ourselves or those who are dearest to us.
They bind themselves, he says, not to use their power for the purpose of injuring the Established Church.
If all men knew that they must inevitably bear the consequences of their own actions--if they absolutely knew that they could not injure another without injuring themselves, the world, in my judgment, would be far better than it is.
I still insist that if Christ were God he had the power to protect himself without injuring his assailants--that having that power it was his duty to use it, and that failing to use it he consented to his own death and was guilty of suicide.
For a time his friends assisted him in the prosecution of several speculative projects, all of which proved abortive, injuring them without benefiting him.
Where water can be used without injuringthe cloth, the chalk or magnesia can be made into a paste and spread over the spot.
The common retting process used for flax is not effective on account of the large amount of gummy matter, and although easy to bleach it is difficult to dye in full bright shades without injuring the luster of the fibers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "injuring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
