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How to use Maim in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Maim? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
There are many more people who helped me, but they'll probably maim me for life if I were to mention their names.
He said it made sense to swap the deer for the geese, since the male deer at the zoo would fight among themselves and kill or maim each other.
They include incendiaries, poison gases, herbicides and other types of chemical substances that can kill, maim or temporarily incapacitate.
They kill and maim people and are too afraid to take the consequences of their actions.
The social compact underpinning any society is that citizens are not permitted to kill or maim their fellows.
A civilized species does not kill, maim, butcher, blow up, whatever you want to call it.
And I don't think any player goes on the field to deliberately hurt or maim someone.
They deliberately went out to kill and maim innocent people.
Bombs not only throw off shrapnel themselves, they create lots of deadly flying debris, including flying glass from broken windows, that can kill and maim.
Do not take this as a castigatory remark designed to wound and maim.
They have been bullying the mainland into continuing retreat and concessions whilst they continue to maim kill and execute people in the province.
There is to us an all-embracing moderation linked to the delights of our weather, which rarely succumbs to the outbursts of violence that maim people and flatten buildings.
Not only does the noise go on for hours but these infernal machines kill or maim thousands of hedgehogs, frogs and fledglings every spring and summer.
A protection order makes it an offence should anyone kill, injure, capture, maim, or cause harm or distress to the tortoise.
Men would maim themselves to avoid the press gangs, while many deserted at the first opportunity.
It was common for a bull to maim or kill several dogs at such an event, either by goring, tossing, or trampling.
The hind legs can also be used to kill or maim with devastating effect.
Examples from Classical Literature
When the savage desires to rob you, he may attempt to strangle and maim you.
A drunken vagabond cannot maim his wife but all England must know all about it.
Indeed, I would decline to do so even to save my own, but I should have no objection to maim.
What if she maim and mutilate all the animals in her Noah's Ark?
They indiscriminately maim and kill furbearing animals as well as 'non-target' animals, including endangered species and family dogs and cats.
And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.
His own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm.
Why, they will have had time to maim the man for life in those four days!
The indictment charged him with assault with intent to maim.
Do you wish to kill or 39 maim us both before it is necessary?
Then they fell upon each other, like young bulls, in all the glory of youth, with naked fists, with hatred, with desire to hurt, to maim, to destroy.
Brutality had followed brutality, and flaming passions and cold-blooded cruelty had driven men to seek one another's lives, and to strive to hurt, and maim, and destroy.
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