Example Sentences

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More research is necessary to determine whether one or more of these viruses were injuring the liver directly, he said.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

The Boers were not hurting us; whether we were injuring them we could not tell.

From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood)

This he did until Apustius proved himself a mighty menace to his country and the Dardanians were injuring the part of Macedonia close to their borders Frag.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Dio, Cassius

They have not understood, that, by every selfish and cruel deed, they were injuring their Master.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

At last Cromwell upbraided them angrily for their injustice and self-interest, which were injuring the public cause.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey