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Example sentences for: bruised

How can you use “bruised” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(Kelsey is the only witness who allegedly saw Broaddrick on the day of the alleged rape, and witnessed the bruised lip, torn panty hose, etc.) Another was Norma Kelsey's sister.
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."
His face looks bruised and battered, and his small, sunken eyes show the marks where glasses were just removed.
It is this arm, this right arm, that North Vietnamese torturers worked over for days in a hellhole called the Plantation, till it was broken and bruised and lacerated.
The Independent of London said that Megawati's appointment "offers her bruised and fragile country its best hope of consolidating its infant democracy."