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Example sentences for: hurts

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It's also a culture that hurts the larger society--not just those on welfare--by producing crime, destroying urban life, fanning racial tension, etc.
As Ruth Shalit says in her review of two books about predator women (Candace Bushnel's Sex and the City and Anka Radakovich's Sexplorations ), "When staging a literary revolution, it never hurts to be sans-culottes ."
It's in his interest to make a fuss in New York even if it doesn't help Hillary a bit in the polls--even if he hurts her.
Maybe Starr doesn't want the truth at all, ponders Williams; maybe he'll just squeeze Hubbell until Hubbell fabricates something that hurts Clinton.
Essentially, Schmidt narrates this novel (the third-person narrator hews closely to his point of view); in the process, he uncovers his own hurts.