How To Use Bruise In A Sentence

Suffice to say there are a few bruised knees. Times, Sunday Times
Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before.
He got more bruises and cuts, muscle pulls and strains than he could remember.
She refused and subsequently suffered injuries to her shoulder, pulled muscles and bruises.
After a cut on the face or an exudation into the lungs, the loose tissues and multiple vessels allow the proliferating cells to obtain rich nourishment; absorption can take place readily, and the part regains its normal condition entirely, while a bruise at the heel or at the withers finds a dense, inextensible tissue where the multiplying elements and exuded fluids choke up all communication, and the parts die Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped. Undefined
He probably would have still been teaching at Premiere Guild right now if he hadn't fell down a flight of stairs and broken his hip and bruised his tail bone.
The plastic tie wraps the police had used on her wrists left welts and bruises.
With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan, Carrion Comfort « Unknowing
I left Chop Suey slightly bruised from getting in the way of an impromptu one-man mosh pit and grinning foolishly, which is the way all the best shows end. The Parson Red Heads and Blitzen Trapper at Chop Suey | Seattle Metblogs
That nighttime trip had wounded his pride and bruised his ego.
There is also a light box with a photo of King's bruised face which turns into a mirror reflecting the viewer's face.
Note however, that your tailbone is, after all, located in your duff and a hard fall at too sharp an angle will either bruise or fracture the tailbone.
Prepare to be bruised by a barrage of gentle nudging. Times, Sunday Times
He wasn't seriously injured - he just got a few cuts and bruises.
The pinnock has a thick skin with a spongy lining, a bruise in it becomes like a piece of cork. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
I lay there feeling the aches depart from my bruised flesh. Anti-Ice
We crashed into the airport 's perimeter fence and had to have first aid for cuts and bruises. Times, Sunday Times
We crashed into the airport 's perimeter fence and had to have first aid for cuts and bruises. Times, Sunday Times
Behind him, lightning crashes across the stars and indigoes bleed from bruise to red as chemicals cut the sky. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
He was lucky to escape with just a bruised ego when he fell off his bike.
Tomaz's back and arms became covered in welts and bruises.
By the end you may feel battered and bruised. The Sun
She had used make-up skilfully to mask her bruise, and with the subdued stage light it was scarcely visible.
You end up covered in cuts and bruises. The Sun
I don't think it broke Steve's heart when Cherise left him, but it certainly bruised his ego.
The blue glow dulled to blue-black, pulsing like a bruise, an open sore on the solar system.
So far, though, the Wharton kids look as if they'd be content just to survive the daylong workshop unbruised.
She heard an air gun fire and a few minutes later heard another sound and a pellet hit her hand causing a bruise.
In the city the snow had long lost its Persil whiteness, and seemed bruised by the dirt and smog that seeps into everything here sooner or later.
There were bruises and her face was streaked with tears.
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The incident had bruised his pride.
She had a bump rising on the back of her head, her neck was slightly bruised, and her ankle was a bit swollen, but other than that she was fine.
His lip was split, his nose bloody, and his eyes were both ringed by dark bruises.
Bruises on the birds' breasts and legs are something to watch out for, they can turn the flesh bitter.
In truth, she knew he probably did indeed possess that strength but it made her feel a little better by trying to bruise his male ego.
Previously thought to be an "animal-only" pigment, bilirubin is best known as the yellowish hue associated with bruises and jaundice sufferers. Innovations-report
He didn't need to go to hospital after all - he only had a few bruises.
I escaped with severely bruised legs.
The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal's club had bruised him.
She didn't realize that he was noticing the greenish bruises that still covered her cheeks.
Harris cites the instance of a woman of thirty, a multipara, six months pregnant, who was gored by a cow; her intestines and omentum protruded through the rip and the uterus was bruised. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The clouds were scudding along the tops of the peaks, and the sky was bruised a deep purple.
To bruise herbs, Mr. Sullivan advises crushing then with the back of a large knife or tapping them with a mallet.
Now you've got a throbbing bruise underneath your nail. The Sun
His friend, Neil, escaped with cuts and bruises in the assault.
But when Dev arrives at his shop it explodes in a fireball, which sends him flying across the road, leaving him battered and bruised.
I pressed snow against my bruised face, and managed to melt more snow in my mouth to quench my thirst.
Then Van Pelt asked what others say about Orakpo, and the subject of friendly fire again reared its bruise-rendering head. Teammates call LaRon Landry "Iron Man"
They suffered bruises and injuries to their heads.
They should be soft but not mushy, and free from bruises or cuts on the skin. Times, Sunday Times
He's a skinny, nervous looking man with greasy black hair and bruises on his face.
Their discography is a rich one, but this three CD set with the debut, Dancer With Bruised Knees and a third CD of demos and unreleased tracks is the ideal place to start. Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter!
Bless these young Boston bruisers for playing with a passion born of a belief that nobody had heard of punk rock until them, and for the ability to write reckless singalong anthems in the process.
NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over ... Joyce Purnick: Bloomberg's No-Shows
It is effective as an antispasmodic for muscle cramps, stiffness, aches, overuse, sprains, bruises, sciatica, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia and poor circulation.
With this disease the patient bruises easily.
The General was said to be battered and bruised, but was not one of the unfortunate 420000 who fell during the battle.
I feel the coldness once again come over me, then I feel the pain from the countless bruises over my body, and the bleeding from my head.
Add enough soil to fill the pot, firming the soil gently around the bulbs being careful not to bruise them.
My ego is bruised right now! The Sun
As heir presumptive by Deed of Nomination registered with the Lyon Court, my Arms are debruised of a three point label during my father's lifetime.
A horrendous smirk of a smile polluted Jen's bruised face as her fingers sharpened into pointed razor claws.
On his forehead resides a swollen, bluish bruise that is most likely throbbing painfully.
Scott kept his expression hostile, but beneath all the cuts and bruises, he seemed to pale. Crescendo
She and her husband and two children escaped with cuts and bruises after a wave smashed through the windscreen of their van.
Her eyes were invisible in the puffy purpling of bruised flesh. THE LAST TEMPTATION
He stood before us smiling and open-eyed while he ran long needles into the fleshy part of his arms and legs without flinching, and he allowed one of the gentlemen present to pinch his skin in different parts with strong crenated pincers in a manner which bruised it, and which to most people would have caused intense pain. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
When they were extricated two or three of them were much bruised about the head and face, but no limbs were broken.
Roberts said injuries in such an accident could range from burns to broken bones, bruises and sprained ankles from sliding down the emergency chutes.
My ego is bruised right now! The Sun
I lay there feeling the aches depart from my bruised flesh. Anti-Ice
He's a known skirt-chaser to a degree that makes John Edwards look like an amateur by comparison, and I have heard rumors from more than one source that his "wife" Laurie has shown up at several Twin Cities ER's with unexplained facial bruises. Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!
I bruised my knee
I managed to scrab and kicked out, so at least one of them must have bruises or marks.
His body was covered in bruises and cigarette burns.
Although you might think they are really tough because they feel hard, potatoes bruise easily and should be treated with care and kept somewhere cool and dark, out of the plastic bag.
The landscape was barren and featureless, a bruised mix of yellow earth and salted vineyards. Times, Sunday Times
Now you've got a throbbing bruise underneath your nail. The Sun
They were also concerned that Mrs Holland had a livid bruise on her jaw and had lost a tooth as a result of an assault the previous week.
Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul. The Genius
He came back with a bruise on his cheek where the troll had hit him with a wooden bowl, and grinning like a mad man.
It must be distinguished from ecchymosis the result of a bruise, by making an incision into the part; in the case of hypostasis a few small bloody points of divided arteries will be seen, in the case of ecchymosis the subcutaneous tissues are infiltrated with blood-clot. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
He was bruised and it swelled up. The Sun
But Lachlan himself was the miracle, always standing stupefied and shocked, having escaped with only a few cuts and bruises.
They can give you stomach ulcers, make you bruise more easily, and even harm your liver and kidneys.
“The bruises indicate alot ”——the word emphasized for my sake——“of unnecessary force.” Death, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz
The nurse gently tended the patient's cuts and bruises.
She then grilled Smith about how he received the bruises and rib injury.
On his left shin there were two bruises, one a leaden yellow graduating here and there into purple, and another, obviously of more recent date, of a blotchy red — tumid and threatening. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
An Arab ambassador said he was bruised, looked badly shaken and needed at least two weeks to recover.
I banged into the shelf so hard that I got an ugly purple bruise on my hip.
Peace has merely condensed the blemishes into one bruise. Times, Sunday Times
She put bandages on all my wounds, including my broken and bruised ribs, and my fractured leg.
Their advice on how to take care of the bruise is constructive and shows that they care, I liked that. Different answers
I felt much better than I had earlier that day, my bones mending and bruises healing.
It is about the loss of childhood innocence and the bruises of adult experience.
There were livid bruises on his shoulder, and chest, he was unshaven, and his hair uncombed.
But, as I said, I was in amaze, and the next I knew was the pang of the entering steel as this clumsy provincial ran me through and charged forward, bull-like, till his hilt bruised my side and I was borne backward. Chapter 11
A close-up on Mr. Kim's face showed what looks like a large bruise on his right cheekbone that appeared after he reportedly fell ill in 2008.
A policeman caught hold of him and dragged him over the fence to safety, leaving him with nothing more serious than bruises.
His body was covered in bruises and cigarette burns.
Mammy, which I suspect of being a kind of liniment that mother had to learn to make on account of the number of the boys and their bruises. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance
He played in that game despite a bruised thigh from a loss to South Florida the week before. USATODAY.com - College Football - Mississippi St. vs. West Virginia
My knees were bruised from tripping, and my arms and legs had scratches from tree branches that reached as far as they could to grab travelers.
Brown missed time with a bruised sternum at the end of the season.
A November day, clouds the color of bruises scutter across the sky. BLACKBIRD
Edmonds wore not one but two bruises, both of the Caribbean sunset kind, one from a bouncer and one from a beamer, both from Patrick Patterson.
Indeed, as I soothed my bruised nerves with brandy fomentations that night, I reflected that there were worse places than India; there was Aberdeenshire, with Ignatieff loose in the bracken, hoping to hang my head on his gunroom wall. Fiancée
Her pale face stood out against the warm, creamy colours of the pillows and sheets, some of the smaller bruises starting to turn the sickly colour of yellow and brown.
His chest and cheek the most repulsive sight, a negative constellation of buckshot bruises.
He rubbed the heel of his hand into his unbruised eye. SCANDAL
Raven hovered around the bruised and battered girl.
Also found were 57 bruises and abrasions which bore the hallmarks of deliberate physical abuse over a period of a month or so, the court heard.
He advanced on him only for an exquisite googly to dip and dart through the gap to bruise the off stump.
What's a horse going to tell you about a bruised bone beneath the hoof or an abscess ? RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
Her skin used to be clear, but now it was blotchy and there were still a few nasty bruises on her bony legs.
The only thing I managed to get out of the whole experience was a painful foot which is presently swelling up quite nicely, and a bruise on my bottom.
He was later declared to have a left shoulder contusion, which is another word for a bruise. Philly.com - Latest Videos
Previously thought to be an "animal-only" pigment, bilirubin is best known as the yellowish hue associated with bruises and THE MEDICAL NEWS
While true wild venison is full of flavour, often the meat can be bruised if the animal is shot badly.
In the commotion the victim was punched in the face by both attackers and left bruised, but didn't need hospital treatment.
Gradually, if somewhat factitiously, his life is transformed through the experience, and in turn he enriches the lives of the collection of kindly, slightly bruised French types that constitute his circle. My Afternoons With Marguerite – review
In coupé or convertible form, with or without supercharged engines, they combine cruiser and bruiser to brilliant effect. Times, Sunday Times
You still have bruises from the festive shopping frenzy. Times, Sunday Times
Caroline explained her bruised face and her stiff arm as the result of a fall from a pair of steps. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
His silvery hair was unkempt, blood and bruises marred his slender body and he was skinnier than when he had come in.
However, on the other hand he appears to be an effective bruiser whose sympathies are with his party which is perhaps what the Tories need at the moment in lieu of any more fundamental charge.
He denied claims his injury was a story concocted to cover up for him being dropped and said: 'The bruise has come out right up my leg. The Sun
That's a yucky, sensitive place to have a bruise.
A British tourist told how he and his girlfriend were hit by the lorry but escaped, shaken and with bruises. Times, Sunday Times
Sword hilts jutted at every hip and easing past without getting caught up or bruised was impossible. The Falcons of Montabard
Okay, am I the only person to think that having to visually check your body for cuts and bruises is actually dis-engaging you from your body? The peaks and perils of First Person Camera
She stroked her long brown hair, making sure it covered the livid bruise on her cheek.
He had bruises on his face, a scratch on one of his lips, sticking-plaster on his left wrist and thumb, and a bandage on his right shoulder.
He cut his scalp and right cheek, and bruised his right hip. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Most bruises do, of course, heal without a scar. The Sun
He was lucky to escape with just a bruised ego when he fell off his bike.
A guy who surfs on his belly did much more than just bruise the ego of one who stands.
It didn't help his composure any that her face and body were a mass of bruises, and her left arm was in a sling more for pain relief than support.
What may be a surprise is that the bottom of your foot hurts, bruised from stepping on the hard metal of the spade or fork repeatedly.
Prepare to be bruised by a barrage of gentle nudging. Times, Sunday Times
He dropped my arm quickly letting me rub my now dinted side, which is going to bruise by morning.
There was a large and livid bruise on the left side of her face, where he had hit her, and a cut on the opposite cheek, which he hadn't seen before, where she had hit the floor.
Her unkind remark bruised his feeling.
The girl had taken a long look at herself in the mirror before deciding she wasn't bruised or welted or anything.
Alienation of affection was once a salve to the broken hearts and bruised pride of cuckolds across the nation, but the claim began losing favor in the early 1900s.
I bruise easily and get dark splotches on my hands and arms.
Here's another quote from Blueprint, that we think might sum up the role of "The Four Horsemen," as they're called disdainfully by bruised Republicans -- from the horse's mouth, page 199: ColoradoPols.com - Front Page
On 11 May 1991 he was taken to hospital suffering from 18 bruises and a bite mark.
First, WR Antonio Freeman bruised a knee ligament in the second minicamp.
But it had never occurred to me that fish and chips was as much a part of the environment as the winds off the North Sea and the bruised, scudding clouds. I believe I can fry
Has she said what gave her the bruises or sprains?
The stained, dilapidated ceiling yields its representational clarity to the intensity of the wandering linear brushstrokes and bruised colors that define its unusual topography.
When street sweeping and a boxing match against a bruiser twice his size fail to raise the necessary funds, the Tramp turns to his millionaire friend for help.
Deirdre murmured, a tear tracing a path down her cheek, from sympathy, or from the bruises Alana was probably inflicting, he had no idea.
His chest and cheek the most repulsive sight, a negative constellation of buckshot bruises.
Ferguson punched Bishop in the face and grappled him to the floor, leaving the drug addict ‘battered and bruised’.
Figs are fairly delicate - they bruise easily and deteriorate quickly, so it's best to store them in the fridge.
He has a lot of bumps and bruises - contusions and soft tissue injuries - but he should be back in four to six weeks.
Most bruises do, of course, heal without a scar. The Sun
She slowly stood, rubbing her bruised ribs and glaring at the man.
My vanity and pride was slightly bruised, though, and that serves me right.
Divorce generally leaves both partners feeling rather bruised.
She'd made Fancy bathe and douche with pearlash and then vinegar; she'd put hypericum on her cuts and arnica on her bruises. PAINT THE WIND
NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over his reversal on term limits and his prodigious campaign spending. Despite Spending $100 Million On Campaign, Bloomberg Pulls Off Narrow Victory
No doubt your husband is an intellectual bruiser, but these are hardly Mensa-level topics.
I am sporting an almighty bruise on the back of my left foot and my right shoulder is painfully letting me know that it's there.
Now my stupidity had landed me with more bruises.
But you will get a nasty bruise on the back of your head when you crash into a lamppost. The Sun
But with these niggles, plus a bruised hand, the demands of keeping for long days in the steamy heat has proved too much. Times, Sunday Times
I thought of the slap on my cheek from the previous day, and was not surprised when I found a bruise had developed there.
Summary: After throwing for 292 yards and three touchdowns Eli Manning went to the sideline in the fourth with what he called a bruised heel. Undefined
He is bruised and subdued by the ghosts still haunting him. Times, Sunday Times
Ugly purplish bruises were already splotching her wrist.
The bandage was delicately applied to the tender joint, where a bruise was starting to develop.
Nestlings use this beak hook in lunging pecks and bites to the backs and heads of their siblings that result in scratches, bruises, and skin lesions.
he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed
Gerrish, or some finely illustrated work on anatomy, but we must apply a searching hand and know to a certainty that the constrictors of neck, or other muscles or ligaments do not pull cervical and hyoid bones so close as to bruise pneumogastric or any other nerves or fibres that would cause spasmodic contraction of digastric, stylo-hyoid or the whole remaining group of neck muscles and ligaments, with which you are or should be very familiar. Philosophy of Osteopathy
However, it was contused and bruised such that it was unusable as a conduit.
And I played volleyball for so many hours that my wrist is all bruised greenish blue now, four days later. Dermatological dysfunctions, travels, and lots of projects
I don't suppose it's much more than a very nasty bruise," Joan said with unabated firmness. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
But there was a sort of bruised quality about her, like an overripe banana, sticky sweet and pulpy. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
If the knee be bruised as well as cut, a poultice should be applied, and changed two or three times a day; but on no account use gunpowder, which is a favourite remedy for broken knees with ignorant people, as it only irritates the wound. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
The old bruiser yesterday did what he does best - deliver a barnstorming, end-of-conference speech packed with one-liners brutally aimed at the hapless Tories and shifty Liberal Democrats.
The next day my foot was swollen and bruised. The Sun
The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them
Because he is the first critic I have met in my life whose philosophy, transcribed into those essays, bruises and bloodies one.
The Holy Prophet (saws) is available by Hazrat Uthman ibn Affan (raa) to have endorsed aloes to be placed upon bruise eyes to cover them. Archive 2009-11-01
She worms her way into the vilest supercriminal organizations and retrieves sensitive information for Father Bruiser. Archive 2008-03-01
I stroke her lifeless cheek, and as I do the deep purple bruises seem to fade a little.
The colors - simmered shades of red, yellow and blue - are more urban decay than Mondrian, turning up as rusty orange, bilious yellow, bruised blue, teal blue and off-red, with smears of black and white.
THE old bruiser put the young contender for the crown firmly in his place last night. The Sun
An autopsy report said she had suffered dozens of bruises. The Sun
On concussions alone, a reader at deadspin. com [1] compiled the following list of players who have borne the brunt of a brain bruise in 2010: Dave Zirin: In the NFL, The Violence Comes to a Head
He was bruised and it swelled up. The Sun
Dish yer chicken-nabber look lak he dead, but dey aint no bones broked, en I aint see no blood, en needer does I feel no bruise; en mo'n dat he wom en he limber, 'sezee. Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
She was badly bruised but otherwise unhurt.
He wanted to feel his fist bruise flesh, smash bone, draw blood.

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