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Example sentences for "harm"

Lexicographically close words:
harlequinade; harlequins; harlot; harlotry; harlots; harmattan; harme; harmed; harmefull; harmelesse
  1. So recently had it been placed upon the patient's upturned face that no harm had been done.

  2. He sent me some notes and suggestions (quite unimportant), and they show me that I have unavoidably done harm to the subject, by publishing an abstract.

  3. By Jove, it would do harm to affix any idea to the long names of outlandish orders.

  4. There might not have been any great harm in it, but nevertheless it seemed an apparent falling away from the singularly bright example which a good man, born only ten minutes from the Elephant, in the village of Mühlen, had once set them.

  5. At least I harm only myself by such an hallucination, if it is an hallucination.

  6. But you may harm yourself more than you imagine," said she with a nervous cadence, in her voice.

  7. For myself, it is nothing, but for the deeper harm I have done, I fear, to Bessie and to you.

  8. Letting him know that no great harm was done, I saw him depart with his friends for Bâle.

  9. We may not do anything, in our strength and security, which might possibly harm others.

  10. No man may do anything that will harm his neighbor.

  11. We may not seek our own pleasure in any way without asking whether it will harm or mar the comfort of some other one.

  12. Cried a dying man whose life had been full of harm to others: "Gather up my influence, and bury it with me in my grave.

  13. There is no great harm in my little plan.

  14. It seemed as if no harm could touch her while she felt the clasp of those dear arms.

  15. I have friends who can choose for you, if I write to them; and you will have but to bring the goods, and see they suffer no harm on the voyage.

  16. How could it harm Angela to be thought to have run out at midnight for a frolic rendezvous?

  17. Thou shalt not harm the loveliest hands on earth," seizing them both in his own.

  18. If nobody at either resort drank deeper of the medicinal springs than Hyacinth--who had ordered her physician to order her that treatment--the risk of harm or the possibility of benefit was of the smallest.

  19. He advises "so using and ordering criminals that they cannot choose but be good, and what harm soever they did before, the residue of their lives to make amends for the same.

  20. Sidenote: Ireland and the Religious Changes] Had the ecclesiastical changes which were forced on the country ended here however, in the end little harm would have been done.

  21. There has no harm befallen the hat," he assured Mr. Kit-ze.

  22. And you know, we love people for the good we do them, and dislike them for the harm we do them; and I did her much harm.

  23. It will be put down in the depositions that the accused did not answer these questions, and this may harm you and them very much.

  24. If they can improve upon it so as to make it useful, I shall be glad of it; and if they think it good for nothing, and throw it in the fire, there is no harm done.

  25. The wolves had fled, but the harm had already been done.

  26. They are warmly clothed, however, and can bear the most terrible weather without harm coming to them.

  27. The priest will keep all harm out of the house.

  28. The cross will keep all harm out of the house While it hangs there.

  29. Whatever you got from me, it was more than any reward or any bit I ever got from the father you had, or any honourable thing at all, but only the hurt and the harm of the world and its shame!

  30. He is called Aleel, And has been crazy now these many days; But has no harm in him: his fits soon pass, And one can go and lead him like a child.

  31. Our foreign aid does grievous harm to the American people by burdening them with excessive taxation, thus making it difficult for them to expand their own economy.

  32. You spied on our secrets, but did we harm you for it?

  33. That was partly because I really respected the man in a way; and partly because there was small harm in flattering him a little, if that could induce him to tell me the more.

  34. For though those here, who can harm you if they will, are without evil intention, nevertheless injury begets desire to injure.

  35. But I also think, now you've answered my question, that you are doing more harm than good by your interpretation of the Holy Ghost.

  36. If Esther were really on her way to meet Will Starling, he would do more harm than good by appearing to pry.

  37. Even the aid and alliance of France inspired no other feeling than distrust, for he said more than once, 'Sure what can harm yez?

  38. I, laughing, for it was his constant boast that no weather could harm her.

  39. There's no harm in saying that, is there?

  40. Then I suppose that no great harm has been done.

  41. There isn't very much harm in that, and you'll have a great many before you leave school.

  42. Not but what I believe you're innocent as a lamb about Mrs Lupex; that is, as far as any harm goes.

  43. All manner of stories will get down to Courcy Castle, and to the countess's ears; and you don't know what harm may come of it.

  44. She could therefore be doing no harm to Lilian Dale.

  45. But now it seems that a man may act in that way and no harm come to him.

  46. I am also reasonably convinced that no harm can come to Thomas unless something unforeseen happens.

  47. Finally twirling the plain gold band on her finger she said: "It can do no particular harm to wait a day or two, can it?

  48. I do not believe, however, that harm is intended the boy.

  49. It struck me that no harm could be done by introducing the subject which was ever in my mind.

  50. Our college rivalry was an honorable one and could do no harm to either of us.

  51. He had it in his power to inflict a serious injury upon Ben Watkins, if he chose, by simply telling of that scene before the safe in the superintendent’s office; but what harm could Ben Watkins do him?

  52. I tried to save you from yourself that night we met in your uncle’s office; but I never even wished to harm you in my life.

  53. In plain language, I am going to drive them out to sea; and if harm comes to them, they will only have themselves to thank for it.

  54. The very worst that could possibly have happened, apart from harm to her, was comparatively unimportant.

  55. What harm do you suppose will be done to the cause of temperance by that tale being told, as they do tell that sort of tale nowadays, in all the newspapers of the world?

  56. You've done more harm this morning than you'll ever do good in all your life!

  57. Still it can surely do no harm for us to understand each other.

  58. Is there harm in such play, Monsieur," I asked innocently, "with so important an end in view?

  59. Tis not safe to trust men, but I can see no harm in his knowing all you have told me.

  60. Well, but still, my dear, there can be no harm to let Mr. Solmes tell you what Mr. Lovelace has said of you.

  61. But I think, my dear, there can be no harm in meeting him.

  62. In the first place, to enable a citizen to work harm and to acquire undue authority, many circumstances must be present which never can be present in a State which is not corrupted.

  63. For government consists in nothing else than in so controlling your subjects that it shall neither be in their power nor for their interest to harm you.

  64. Here we have to note that actions which seem good in themselves and unlikely to occasion harm to any one, very often become hurtful, nay, unless corrected in time, most dangerous for a republic.

  65. And whereas, formerly, a force of a thousand foot-soldiers could effect a change in the government of Genoa, the enemies of Ottaviano have assailed him with ten thousand, without being able to harm him.

  66. But when you trust to your foot-soldiers, and to the methods already indicated, artillery becomes powerless to harm you.

  67. Yet none of them raised a hand to harm him, and all departed without attempting anything against him or knowing why they refrained; each blaming the others.

  68. For any weakness inherent in them is soon discovered if they be brought near, when, as happened with the elephants of Semiramis and the fiery spears of the men of Fidenae, they do harm rather than good.

  69. That, commonly, Fortresses do much more harm than good XXV.

  70. And although, as touching the prolongation of commands, we never find any tumult breaking out in Rome on that account, we do in fact discern how much harm was done to the city by the ascendency which certain of its citizens thereby gained.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abomination; abuse; afflict; affliction; aggravate; assault; atrocity; bad; bane; bankruptcy; batter; bewitch; blemish; blight; breakage; breakdown; bruise; bugbear; burden; calamity; collapse; contaminate; corrupt; corruption; crucify; curse; damage; debase; deface; defile; deprave; despite; despoil; destroy; destruction; deteriorate; detraction; detriment; dilapidation; disable; disadvantage; discredit; disease; disgrace; disoblige; disservice; distress; disturb; doom; drawback; embitter; envenom; evil; flaw; get; graze; grievance; handicap; harass; harm; havoc; hurt; hurting; ill; impair; impairment; inconvenience; infect; infection; infliction; infringement; injure; injury; injustice; inroad; irritate; jinx; liability; loss; maim; maiming; maltreat; mar; menace; mischief; mischievousness; mistreat; molest; mutilation; offence; outrage; persecute; pest; pestilence; plague; poison; pollute; pollution; prejudice; punish; punishment; ruin; ruination; sabotage; savage; scathe; scourge; shake; shoot; smart; spoil; stab; strain; taint; tarnish; thorn; threaten; torment; torture; toxin; trample; trouble; turn; undermine; venom; vexation; violate; violence; visitation; vitiate; weaken; weakening; woe; worsen; wound; wrong


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    harm done; harm shall; harmonious whole