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How to use wounding in a sentence

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Her extensive understanding of war's horror contrasts with the ridiculous vagueness of her father's telegram announcing Victor's wounding.
Thanks to a swift horse powered by a mysterious elixir, he intercepts Domenico, wounding him mortally.
He was jailed for life for wounding with intent to resist arrest but was cleared of attempted murder.
We handcuffed him, but he broke the chain of the handcuffs by pulling them apart and ended up wounding his hand.
He still remembers the day when a deer unexpectedly attacked a former zoo official, seriously wounding him in the arm.
Rama has no option but to crawl, wounding her hands and tearing her clothes as she inches towards her distant school.
When soldiers surrounded the house, Mr Shwairah let off eight bursts of gunfire, seriously wounding one of the soldiers.
By murdering 37 and wounding scores of devotees, perpetrators have widened the emotional and communal divide.
She preferred wounding someone or having herself get injured instead of having anyone dead.
It's a problem, and it's often more than a matter of not wounding a buddy's ego.
That purge is wounding enough interests and egos to explain the current rift in the party, whatever else might be hidden in its depths.
But no sooner had Porrus delivered a wounding blow to the knight's left arm than the knight returned a blow to his shield.
Perhaps it is the emotionally wounding proximity of him that brings back suppressed memories of the past.
He is more correct than he may have imagined, his words betraying an even more wounding significance.
He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down.
Dominic had held himself aloof from everyone, wounding them in the process.
Twenty-nine others were arrested for outstanding warrants on charges of burglary, larceny and malicious wounding.
The author tells of five men sentenced to death for intentionally wounding themselves in the hope of repatriation.
Their attacker pleaded guilty to wounding and assault at Manchester Crown Court.
This heinous act of the murder of a little girl and the wounding of her peers go beyond the boundaries of reason and sanity.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Again and again she had braved personal insult and wounding injustice as an atheist.
Knowing that she was but a weak goddess Diomedes attacked her, wounding her in the hand.
It exudes from the styrax benzoin by wounding the tree, and drying, becomes a hard gum-resin.
The lack of them injured Frank more deeply and lastingly than simply by wounding his heart.
The women of malwa like embracing and kissing, but not wounding, and they are gained over by striking.
And bayoneted two officers of the westphalian commissariat, wounding a third.
It was Kua-ko, and after wounding me with his spear he was about to finish me with his knife.
If, however, the wounding is accidental, he shall simply pay for the harm done.
It is the killing of the church, or the wounding it at least.
Only once did a sorcerer succeed in wounding Notscha in the left arm.
All three are charged with wounding with intent to commit grievous bodily harm and affray.
The girl evidently dared not fire for fear of wounding me, but I saw her sneak stealthily and cat-like toward the flank of the attackers.
Hunters claimed that the lighter, harder steel shot was hard on shotgun barrels and killed ducks ineffectively, causing excessive wounding.
And the only answer was one still more wounding to his self-love.
Oh, how I regret the brutal, wounding things I said to you, Wilhelmine!
Two suicide bombers detonated themselves at Baghdad's police academy yesterday, killing 43 people and wounding 73 more.
It would require tact to discourage his silent worshipping without wounding him more deeply.
A similar explosion also resulted in Mahdia Doura area south of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five others were injured.
A MAN who shot an armadillo ended up accidentally wounding his mother-in-law when the bullet ricocheted off the mammal known for its hard shell.
It always gave me pain to observe that Steerforth treated him with systematic disparagement, and seldom lost an occasion of wounding his feelings, or inducing others to do so.
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