Words similar to hurt

Example sentences for: hurt

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

Barak pleads ignorance of his party's fund-raising details, but the comptroller's fine and initiation of a criminal investigation is expected to hurt the prime minister's credibility at home during negotiations with Syria and the Palestinians.
It'll sure hurt if I jump," and then jumping anyway.
More enlivening by far is Love and Death on Long Island , in which another aging protagonist (John Hurt), a clubby English novelist poignantly out of touch with modern society, goes on another soulful quest, developing an obsession with a beautiful teen idol (Jason Priestley) whom he accidentally sees on-screen in a film called Hot Pants College 2 . First-time director Richard Kwietniowski has fun with the collision of high and low culture, and he does elegant work.
Plaudits go to rookie British director Richard Kwietniowski for deploying "exactly calibrated bursts of dry wit" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). But the highest praise goes to character actor John Hurt's wry depiction of the writer.
The superficial analysis is that the court struck down sampling and hurt the Democrats.