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How to use hurt in a sentence

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She said the letter had caused her additional hurt and distress at a very difficult time.
Then she readjusted the temperature settings a bit, so that she wouldn't hurt herself again.
He admits that voters were growing weary of it all and that it hurt his party.
Basically, if you are holding a wolf by the ears, there is no way to get out of a situation without getting hurt.
When I first started I was afraid of getting hurt, but I learned I can handle myself in physically demanding situations.
Labonte wasn't hurt in the ensuing blaze but with the fuel fire raging, he had to scramble to get free.
Radiation, lead, and other heavy metals, such as copper and mercury, could hurt the baby.
We are prepared to overlook the hurt, the nasty gibes that have been flung at us, and the personal attacks we have suffered.
It was most unlike the soft earth of the oasis, and her first running steps jarred her knees and hurt her bare feet.
A good friend of mine writes in to say that the word on the street is that thankfully so far it seems that no students were hurt.
Finally, he sat out three games his senior season thinking he'd redshirt, only to be asked to play when the starters were hurt.
Upon approaching the castle's wooden drawbridge, Jake's stomach began knotting, twisting up until it hurt.
It hurt thinking about it, knowing that there was absolutely nothing she could do.
We're both jumping in with both feet but at the same time being somewhat cautious, because we've both been hurt many times in the past.
True, you could have fully murdered him, but the only reason you hurt him enough to get away was blind panic.
There is absolutely no justice when it comes to these yobbos who go out and hurt innocent people.
Alternately, it doesn't hurt to find someone smoking tea-leaves and trail along behind them.
To these people I knew I was not just a regular person, I was something that they wanted to protect, but hurt by doing so.
If I got behind the wheel of a race car, I'd only hurt or embarrass myself, so I never had a real desire to do it.
This is a sweet fella, wouldn't hurt a soul, but he yaks, and yaks, and yaks.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mebbe you do know what the frogs said, but it won't hurt you to hear it agen.
He saw a way to hurt her, to abase her pride, and cut her to the very soul with shame.
He is hurt and angry that one of us could be so capriciously unjust to him.
Violet Granger was leagues away, and a touch of romance could not disquiet or hurt her.
He was hurt by the sight of his own life, which ought to have been a masterpiece of aloofness.
Moreover, his feelings were hurt by the disproportion of their respective ages.
We could not escape from it, lest we hurt the amour-propre of the cook, and it was late when we were ready for our last sortie.
After all, he was reassuring himself as well as Mrs. Chadwick, it hasnt hurt her.
But when Loki beheld the scene he was sorely vexed that Balder was not hurt.
It hurt but I am not chuckleheaded enough to insist that she come with me to die instead of leaving me and living.
I was cockeyed enough to follow Miller's example and found out how much it really hurt.
One of the slaves, it seems, had hurt his foot, and the night being very dark they soon lost sight of the coffle.
How it had toiled and hurt for him, that little hand, still rough and scarred!
Indemnity, swift and condign, does what mortal hand can do to heal the hurt.
Rather than hurt her he found himself forced to the use of anaesthesia, which he hated.
If you will conscionably do this duty which is your own, you will be the less in danger of hurt by scandal.
If Abednego Danner was hurt at his son's defection from his own college, he said nothing.
It used to hurt the Friar to hear some o the double-jointed swear words we used when excited.
The hurt was not dangerous, though it bled freely, and was some weeks in healing.
His blood count is normal and he isn't hurt physically unless there are internal injuries.
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