There was a wild mix-up as his adversaries piled up on him, and when the mass was untangled, Tom lay on the ground with a badly sprained ankle.
It takes more than a sprained ankle to keep Tom off the poetry stuff," laughed Fred.
The Creator in His providence has arranged it so that simple folks are rarely sick, and a sprained ankle, a bad bruise from a steer's horn or a pitching horse, are soon remedied by rest and a good constitution.
The punchers came around to congratulate me on my rapid recovery from a sprained ankle, when they happened to observe the cattle again scouring off for the open country.
It had all happened in a moment; the next moment the horses were plunging and rearing, with the driver swearing at them, and the young man had sunk on a truck white as death, and faint from the pain of his sprained arm and shoulder.
Remembrance of the sprainedfoot alone restrained him.
It was through accident that we struck the farm one afternoon, the fact being that the Bookworm was limping, having slightly sprained his ankle.
She had not the face to deny it: he had found out what that wicked girl, with all her pride, and her martyrdom, and her sprained ankles, had been about.
Do ye mind the first evening I met her at your house--how she sate and talked, and laughed, with her sprained ankle swollen and black all the time, just that she might not interfere with the pleasure of others?
She has sprained her ankle very badly, and is shivering terribly; she was lying out all night in the wet wood.
Yes, she sprained her ankle last night in attempting to cross the stile in the wood at the end of our lawn.
I did not know that poor little Nan was suffering from a sprained ankle, and asked her to go a few messages for me.
Jack's share in the death of Pip was likely to remain a secret to the end of time; so also was the true story of Nan's sprained foot.
She will find out when she discovers that you have sprained your foot.
She would undertake my sprained ankle, for she was famous for the cure of sprains and bruises, but my arm was past her?
Going on as well as a broken arm and a sprained ankle can do," I answered.
She was recovering with the wonderful elasticity of a thoroughly sound constitution; but I had not considered it advisable for her even to sit up yet, with her broken arm and sprained ankle.
Tardif told me you had taken her sprained ankle under your charge.
The arm was going on all right, and so was Mother Renouf's charge, thesprained ankle.
Oh, very well, thank you, only I've sprainedmy thumb, I think.
To add to these fateful probabilities, Miss Arnot fell, and sprained her ankle, in the ascent of Mount Lincoln, and was confined for some weeks to the hotel after her companions had departed.
Well, he sorter sprained his foot agin a rock yesterday," continued Flynn with shameless untruthfulness.
Then I must have had a very bad fall, for I was stunned and I sprained myself badly.
The captain ordered the watch to man the after sweeps for a crossing, and nobody would go--no more sprained ankles for them, they said.
The storm ripped and roared around all night, and in the middle of it another man tripped and sprained his ankle, and had to knock off.
And pretty soon there was a regular storm, and in the middle of it a man that was running aft stumbled and fell and sprained his ankle so that he had to lay up.
The sprained ankle, by preventing him from moving, had saved him from plunging down the well.
The sprained ankle he had bound tightly in a wet handkerchief, but every time his weight rested on that leg he had to grit his teeth.
Trying to rise, he slipped down at once from a badly sprained ankle.
Loman, angrily, and half drawing his supposed sprained hand out of the sling.
This made us all laugh, 'cause fact was, she hadn't been housed in near up to the average of a sprained ankle.
Her pony had slipped on Carter Pass and she had sprained her ankle so bad she couldn't stand.
She has sprained her ankle; but aside from this has no physical ill," sez the Friar.
Assured that she had sprained it, and aware of the serious consequences of an injury of that nature, she felt greatly distressed.
Do you imagine I waylaid Mr. Clarke, and thensprained my ankle on purpose?
She has only sprained her ankle, and trying to walk afterward hurt her so badly that she became faint and I had to carry her.
You have sprained your ankle and are needlessly torturing yourself.
Brother and sister would be left far behind, or mebbe get stacked up and discouraged or sprainedfor the day.
Her steps were rapid and agitated; she scarcely felt the weakness which reminded her of having sprained her foot when very young, and which obliged her to limp slightly.
The gentlemen ran forward to her assistance; Montalais had sprained her foot.
Montalais related how it had happened, that in hurrying on, in order to arrive as quickly as possible, she had sprained her foot.
On reaching our abode, we dismissed the cabriolet and gave the groom something by way of compensation for his sprained foot, which would keep him in the house a few days.
But Mrs. Jack Rabbit got a bad cold; Wee Field-Mouse was ill; Squire Cricket sprained his ankle, and all the little Spiders had the measles.
Then, too, M'randy sprained her ankle a month or so back, and things have been awful sence then.
Here he was at last, a free man, although with a sore head and a sprained ankle.
Sometimes Miranda slept on the door-step, bare-footed, as usual, with a dirty bandage around her sprained ankle.
He tried to wave his sprained wrists and couldn't; tried to stamp his foot and found it too lame.
He'd slipped off one of the braces of the trestles and sprained both wrists and bruised himself till he wa'n't much more than one big lump.
Here was a grim matter indeed, one requiring instant action, and he was laid up with a sprained ankle!
A sprained ankle, a fifty-mile ride, an' nothin' to eat on top of it.
He painfully made his way to the spring, drank, and then soaked his sprained ankle in the icy stream till Laguerre came to help him into the saddle.
In a panic he turned, slipped, overbalanced, and his whole weight ground down hard on his sprained ankle.
He was smoking a cigarette and soaking his sprained ankle in a bucket of hot water.
I onlysprained my ankle," said Loudon, red to the ears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
