Example Sentences

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That was one of the reasons the group decided on a field day celebration: “Our stomachs have been hurting, our backs have been hurting, just all of the body ailments.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

In those other times, I think it’s just, the fans have been hurting along with him.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025

The assumption was that I must have been hurting mentally as much as I was physically.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2024

Miners have been hurting from sticky inflation and high fuel prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, along with labor shortages in the United States.

From Reuters • Aug. 8, 2023

I have been hurting your heart all the time without knowing it. 

From The Trumpet-Major by Hardy, Thomas