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Example sentences for: bruised

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(One of the three is Kelsey's sister, whose motives can be similarly questioned; the other two heard Broaddrick tell her story but did not see her bruised lip, as only Kelsey and Broaddrick's husband claim to have.)
His face looks bruised and battered, and his small, sunken eyes show the marks where glasses were just removed.
Other publications, too timid to endorse even this superficial assessment, reported that "analysts" and "top Republicans" were questioning Bush's "erratic handling of the drug question" and warning that his "candidacy had been bruised by his handling of the issue."
A picture of the men--one with a badly bruised face--was displayed on Serbian TV and reproduced in newspapers around the world.
The Independent of London said that Megawati's appointment "offers her bruised and fragile country its best hope of consolidating its infant democracy."