Example sentences for: maiming

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

  • "It," of course, is the war wound, the battlefield maiming of his arm and shoulder during World War II--or, as the Washington Post 's David Maraniss and other writers have upgraded it for their journalistic purposes, the Wound.

  • Can we really believe, for instance, that John Bobbitt's name was never used during the Post 's coverage of his wife's trial for sexually maiming him?

  • Finally, while Sacco and Vanzetti probably were innocent of the murder of a single policeman, McVeigh has practically confessed to killing 168 people and maiming 500 more.

  • One wonders if the papers would have been this low-key if it were--Qaddafi, say--standing almost alone against the world in clinging to a maiming technology.

  • Car magazines and auto commercials continue to not merely excuse but celebrate behavior that kills almost as many Americans annually as died in the Vietnam War during its bloodiest year, while maiming and injuring thousands more.


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