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Example sentences for "injury"

Lexicographically close words:
injurie; injuries; injuring; injurious; injuriously; injuste; injustice; injustices; ink; inke
  1. The injury which is inflicted is not at first felt; time is required to develop it; and when developed, the closest investigation may be necessary to trace it to its cause; this the people may not be able to accomplish.

  2. Much injury is done, which the wisest future counsels can never repair, and much more that can never be remedied but by such counsels and by the lapse of time.

  3. Every one here knows that all the benefits of this experiment are but injury and oppression; all this reform, but aggravated distress.

  4. All these things may gratify greediness for sudden gain, or the rashness of daring speculation; but they can bring nothing but injury and distress to the homes of patient industry and honest labor.

  5. In the strife which should inflict the greatest injury on the other, they had paralyzed the commerce of the world and embittered the minds of all the neutral powers.

  6. It was represented by Mr. Benton of Missouri as a resolution to inquire into the expediency of committing a great injury upon the new States of the West.

  7. Whoever shall take a vengeance equal to the injury which hath been done him,c and shall afterwards be unjustly treated;d verily GOD will assist him: for GOD is merciful, and ready to forgive.

  8. The injury they did Benjamin was the separating him from his brother; after which they kept him in so great subjection, that he durst not speak to them but with the utmost submission.

  9. Unto the Jews did we forbid that which we have told thee formally:h and we did them no injury in that respect; but they injured their own souls.

  10. The commentators are not agreed what this injury was.

  11. Such persons do more injury to a distant Mission than they do good, and no one knows the difficulties I have had to pass through.

  12. But it was never intended, that he should be employed to the injury and destruction of himself, or to the injury and destruction of his own species.

  13. It is difficult to estimate the injury which is done to persons, by this last mentioned effect of novel-reading upon the mind.

  14. It is neither followed for food, nor for prevention of injury to man, or to the creatures belonging to him.

  15. The soul is not in any way harmed by being with the body, for the injury of sin is due to her own free will and not to the body.

  16. If we say that his life is a part of his being, we do injury to the other aspect of his unity, namely, his simplicity.

  17. The fact that as a result of an injury a man may lose his reason is no argument against us, for this happens only when an injury is inflicted on the brain, which is the reason's instrument.

  18. But to think of the study of medicine as the aim of life and devote all one's time to it is doing injury to one's soul.

  19. Death is also caused by disease or injury of the brain.

  20. The first alternative is impossible; because if the soul is connected with the body in order to die with it, its union is an injury to the soul, for in its separate existence it was free from the defects of matter.

  21. The purpose is to prevent injury by punishing the offender.

  22. He tells me also, as a friend, the great injury that he thinks I do myself by being so severe in the Yards, and contracting the ill- will of the whole Navy for those offices, singly upon myself.

  23. He told me of my Lady Carteret's trouble about my writing of that letter of the Duke of York's lately to the office; which I did not own, but declared to be of no injury to G.

  24. Coventry's friends, that they think he hath done himself much injury by making this man and his interest so much his enemy.

  25. Luckily for Dorothy, her own preparations were already made, so that she could give her time to her aunt without injury to herself.

  26. But it is always an injury to be connected in any way with a woman who is separated from her husband.

  27. He could not divest his mind of the injury which had accrued to him from his wife's conduct, nor could he help talking of the grief with which his mind was laden.

  28. But men in their vanity never think of the injury they may do to a woman's name.

  29. And then, when he endeavoured to explain to her that a separation would be very injurious to herself, he had coupled her sister with her, thus seeming to imply that the injury to be avoided was of a material kind.

  30. Each belligerent party felt that a special injury had been inflicted upon it.

  31. Outhouse says that you have done her an irretrievable injury by going down to Devonshire to her, and by writing to her.

  32. But Miss Stanbury the elder was quite as assured that the injury had been done to her.

  33. But your son has told Mr. Trevelyan that we must go," said Nora, who felt that her sense of injury against Hugh Stanbury was greatly increased by what had taken place.

  34. Their greetings spoken, their first topic of conversation was, of course, the injury proposed to be done to the American ladies, and which would now fall upon them.

  35. The danger was greatly increased by the wreck of the masts which had fallen towards the shore, and he received an injury in the back which confined him to his bed for a week, in consequence of being dragged under the main mast.

  36. In some cases the foliage is attacked by rust fungi and some injury is also done by leaf spot.

  37. The difficulty was that during very hot weather the wax melted and ran down and did some injury on the south side of the tree.

  38. Reports of injury by the walnut weevil, Conotrachelus juglandis, and also by codling moth larvae have been received.

  39. Certain kinds of trees, hickory, walnut, are very susceptible to injury to the roots.

  40. I am inclined to think the scion wood injury was done before winter set in.

  41. As for her, I could manage her well enough, if, unworthy as she is of any consideration, I had not still some regard for an illustrious family, that would be distracted were I to resent such an injury as it deserves.

  42. I will give you a short sketch of the principal persons, to the best of my knowledge, without injury to any one; for I abominate the trade of scandal.

  43. To Swift, indeed, misfortune and injury seem equally to have meant resentment, whether against the fates or some personal object.

  44. Sects are mischievous: to say that they are mischievous is to say that they ought to be checked in their beginning; where they exist they should be tolerated, but not to the injury of the church.

  45. To return malice for malice and injury for injury will afford but a temporary gratification to our evil passions, and our enemies will only be rendered more and more bitter against us.

  46. A more glorious victory can not be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part the kindness should begin on ours.

  47. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, in injury and reparation; for anger begins in folly, but ends in repentance.

  48. This was done, not for the purpose of crippling American commerce, but either to increase English revenue or to inflict injury on foreign rivals or enemies.

  49. In the end, however, no permanent injury was done, since the monasteries, by their profuse and indiscriminate charity, had undoubtably encouraged much of the very pauperism which they had relieved.

  50. I have on every occasion endeavoured to make the principal people believe that we should return again to Otaheite and that we should revenge any injury done in our absence to the people of Matavai and Oparre.

  51. The plants received no injury from the bad weather having been carefully covered from the spray of the sea: some were in a dormant state and others were striking out young shoots.

  52. It is impossible to say what injury we should have suffered if it had passed directly over us.

  53. Moreover, the magistrates govern well, so that no one in the fraternity can do injury to another.

  54. But such contingent and indirect injury should be endured by society for the sake of the greater good of human freedom, and because any attempt at coercion in private conduct will merely produce rebellion on the part of the individual coerced.

  55. The Works Committee had added insult to the injury they did him.

  56. They at first yielded no betraying footmarks, but at last a leaf was found with a large spot of frothy blood, showing the animal's injury to have been through the lungs.

  57. The full particulars regarding the injury to our ships are not yet in hand, but as far as I could ascertain none was seriously injured, all being still engaged in operations.

  58. He was an excellent swimmer, and in spite of the shock and injury he had sustained, he managed to keep afloat until he was picked up.

  59. Collision mats were quickly got out and placed over the hole, but the injury was too severe to be dealt with by such means, and the swift inrush of water made all efforts to save the vessel vain.

  60. Nor was this the only injury she sustained.

  61. These switches were capable of manual operation even at times of heavy overload without danger of personal injury to the operator or of destructive arcing between the parts of a single switch or from one switch to another near-by.

  62. The brick or stone compartment for each phase of each switch should be so substantial that the contacts of that phase may arc to destruction without injury to the contacts of another phase.

  63. Each of these pins is entirely covered with sheet zinc from the cross-arm to the threaded end, and it is expected that this metal covering will protect the wood of the pin from injury by the leakage current.

  64. During this period I ate almost nothing; a baked apple and a cup of custard would be as near as I would go to a meal, and as a result I came through the experience without any injury whatever to my health.

  65. He cannot oppose injury to injury, whether he is alone or with others, either in person or through other people.

  66. Then the ancients allowed the resistance of injury by injury?

  67. The Christian has in no case the right to put to death his neighbor who has done him evil, or to do him injury in return.

  68. Wrong must be opposed by wrong, murder by murder, injury by injury, evil by evil.

  69. These agencies conversed continually about an injury that had been inflicted on them by the Will of God, the selfish caprice of their employers, or the cupidity of the rich.

  70. For baby waked up suddenly in a storm of rage, and called Heaven and Earth to witness the grievous injury and neglect of his family in not being ready with a prompt bottle.

  71. Whereas had these blows followed one another on a yielding head, the injury it inflicted as a battering-ram might have outweighed the damage it received in inflicting it.

  72. The Earl and myself are so handicapped by our sense of the fearful injury that we have--however unintentionally--inflicted on your son, that we are really tied hand and foot.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "injury" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abomination; abrasion; abuse; ache; aching; affront; aspersion; atrocity; bad; bane; bankruptcy; bereavement; blemish; blight; blow; breach; break; breakage; breakdown; brickbat; bruise; burn; chafe; check; chip; collapse; concussion; contempt; contumely; corruption; cost; crack; crackle; cramp; craze; crime; cut; damage; debit; deformity; delinquency; denial; deprivation; dereliction; despite; destruction; detraction; detriment; dilapidation; disadvantage; dispossession; disservice; distress; dolor; drawback; dump; enormity; error; evil; expense; failure; fault; felony; flout; forfeit; forfeiture; fracture; fray; gall; gash; genocide; gibe; grief; grievance; grudge; handicap; harm; havoc; humiliation; hurt; hurting; ill; impairment; imposition; impropriety; incision; indignity; indiscretion; infection; infringement; iniquity; injury; injustice; inroad; insult; jeer; jeering; laceration; lapse; lesion; liability; loss; maiming; malfeasance; mischief; mischievousness; misdeed; misdemeanor; mock; mockery; mutilation; offense; omission; oppression; outrage; pain; pang; passion; perdition; poison; pollution; prejudice; privation; puncture; punishment; rent; robbery; ruin; ruination; run; rupture; sabotage; sacrifice; scald; scar; scathe; scoff; scorch; scrape; scratch; shock; sin; slash; slip; smart; sore; spasm; spoliation; stab; strain; stress; stroke; suffering; taunt; tear; throes; tort; toxin; transgression; trauma; trespass; trip; turn; venom; vexation; violation; violence; weakening; woe; wound; wrench; wrong