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Example sentences for "hurts"

Lexicographically close words:
hurting; hurtle; hurtled; hurtles; hurtling; hus; husband; husbande; husbanded; husbandes
  1. Forgetful of hurts and of weakness, he gathered the ecstatically squirming collie into his battered bare arms and babbled sobbingly: "I did it, square, Jeff.

  2. His mother had always been able to solve his few perplexities and soothe his hurts in the days when he still had lived with her.

  3. You can't tell how much an author hurts himself by troubling a publisher as you have done.

  4. There is, of course, the pain of drowning--it probably hurts to be strangled, but I do not think it will hurt as much as ten lines of The Captive hurt.

  5. Jack Frost often hurts the poor, pinching too hard their fingers and toes.

  6. It hurts his lungs, for when he draws the smoke in he carries the poisonous nicotine to the tender and delicate air-cells.

  7. It hurts his heart, causing it to beat too fast for a while and afterwards making it weak and tired.

  8. It hurts his stomach and gives him indigestion, and no one knows how bad that is until he has had it for himself.

  9. The chief caused my hurts to be cured, and then I kept my promise.

  10. Small groups of warriors, their hurts dressed with primitive poultices, gathered around the hammocks of those more seriously injured and discussed the battle.

  11. Aren't there times when it hurts you to be quiet?

  12. The whole thing hurts me horribly, Tom," he said.

  13. It hurts me less than I expected it would have done.

  14. The country was one where men had learned to look after hurts without much professional aid.

  15. He had won for his wife the cousin of the queen who such honour fair 475 Would show him, herself would she tend him, and her hands for his hurts should care.

  16. And at the entrance, I remember, grew the herb of grace, which more than once has done me service in healing the hurts of my pets.

  17. They will hurt nothing that hurts not me.

  18. But come up to the village, SeƱors, where you can rest and have your hurts attended to; afterwards we will talk.

  19. Perhaps he knows better how deep his hurts are than does this leech.

  20. He says that it is delicious, but suddenly he has remembered what I too forgot, that the doctor at Motril forbade us to touch wine for fear lest we should worsen the hurts that we had in the shipwreck.

  21. And is it not needed whenever it helps us and hurts the enemy?

  22. At the same time that the tragedy was enacting at Ford's Theatre an assault was perpetrated upon Mr. Seward, who was then confined to his bed by hurts lately received in an accident.

  23. I shall do less whenever I believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.

  24. Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

  25. Hence satire rose, that just the medium hit, And heals with morals what it hurts with wit.

  26. He had gone away a boy--so she had called him; but he had come back man enough to hide the hurts she gave him, and willing to let her know it.

  27. It hurts her acutely if she attempts to walk on it; but if she keeps quiet, she is hardly aware of there being anything wrong with it.

  28. He must not take his ill-treatment lightly, nor recover from his hurts too quick.

  29. Johnnie, as the latter sauntered out of the kitchen for the very last time, that no skill on earth could entirely mend the hurts which he had so bravely inflicted upon his groaning foster father?

  30. Oh, Johnnie, it hurts to sit like this all the time!

  31. Now I must wash your hurts and bind them.

  32. And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.

  33. In a stitch in the side, every one must have heaved a sigh that hurts by easing.

  34. Without entering into the metaphysics of the question, it is a sufficient practical answer, for the present purpose, to say that the unfavourable sentiments of man are excited by everything which hurts them.

  35. But the unfavourable sentiments of the people are excited by everything which hurts them.

  36. They shall receive a terrible blow this Parliament, and yet shall not know who hurts them.

  37. How it hurts to see ill-health on a face that one loves!

  38. It seems that a certainty, however terrible, hurts less cruelly than doubt.

  39. But Lane was obdurate; and not the least of his hurts was the last one--a divination that in spite of his mother's distress there was a feeling of relief of which she was unconscious.

  40. For it twists me out of shape and hurts horribly.

  41. Well, it hurts one's eyes to look at the sun.

  42. Besides, it is not what they say of you in the paper that hurts me--.

  43. He is the one who is shortsighted and careless of consequences; who talks slander and so hurts his friends; who forgets that the laws of God punish evil doing, and so hurts himself.

  44. I have got a stone in my shoe; it hurts me very much.

  45. I have this load to carry; to be sure it is silver, but it is so heavy that I can't hold up my head, and it hurts my shoulders sadly.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hurts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.