Wound

//wyːnd//

"Wound" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Rub salt in the wound.

The nurse wound my leg with a bandage.

The soldier carried on as if his wound was nothing.

The road wound through the fields.

The man was used to treating this kind of wound.

The wound has not healed yet.

The cabinet minister wound up submitting his resignation.

It will aggravate the wound.

Blood ran from his wound.

Blood is flowing from the wound at the back of her head.

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The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.

Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.

I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.

It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.

The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

I find neglect or rejection from my own community much harder to take and more wounding than the same thing or worse from the outside world.

“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared.[…]”

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