Example sentences for: wounded

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

  • After the shooting subsides, the tenderfoot hurries ahead to discover the group's medic (Giovanni Ribisi) mortally wounded, being ministered to by squadron mates hysterically pressing the dying man for instructions on how to stop his bleeding.

  • All papers report that the Nairobi hospitals have been overwhelmed by treating the 4000-plus wounded; the NYT devotes a separate inside article to the story.

  • Everybody fronts the precedent-setting verdict of a Brooklyn federal jury finding that several gun manufacturers were legally responsible for the criminal use of firearms, awarding $500,000 in damages to a New York teenager wounded in a 1995 shooting.

  • Having no real anesthesia to ease the agony of amputation or surgery, a surgeon of two centuries ago offered wounded soldiers the only pain reducer available—a bullet to bite on.

  • In May 1864, he was treating the wounded from the Battle of the Wilderness, part of the brutal and grueling campaign that would take so many lives in the peninsula of Virginia.


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