How To Use Wounded In A Sentence
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At least two of the job seekers were wounded by gunfire.
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He regained his balance and then retreated to his post beside the door, curling into himself like a wounded possum.
NO BODY
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Much later, Tomlinson realized that the hotel had already been hit and that all the journalists were either fleeing their rooms or helping evacuate the mortally wounded reporters.
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Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded.
Way Up In The Sky Is The Leader Of The Greatest Band Of All Time | ATTACKERMAN
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They hurt for the wounded and the dead but they are eager to continue to attack.
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Eight people were wounded in a clash with border guards.
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Dick Brewer had taken refuge behind a thirty-inch sawlog near the mill, just one hundred and forty steps from the window near which this fierce little fighting man was lying, wounded to death.
The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado
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From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry.
"What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
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Likewise, a car bomb in Dura, Baghdad, killed 9 national guardsmen and wounded 20.
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It appears that after Cook was wounded in the back, islanders clubbed him to death.
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The wounded pride of a fifteen-year-old boy had to be salvaged someway.
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Residents said at least five civilians were also wounded by flying debris.
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By some miracle all three aircraft landed safely and by an even greater miracle none of the three pilots were wounded.
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The conflict was very fierce, and took place when the captain and I were at the xebeque, and before we could separate them four of them had fallen; two were killed, and the other two badly wounded.
The Privateersman
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That nighttime trip had wounded his pride and bruised his ego.
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This war and occupation was founded on Bush's lies and these lies have infected everythingabout thisillegal warand occupation~ from the quasi Iraqi American-controlled government to the purposely misleading body and wounded count and why, you ask?
BRING THEM HOME NOW / NOT LATER IN BODY TUBES
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Gray baled out of his shattered Z3060, wounded in the left thigh.
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No army cares for its sick and wounded while neglecting its on-duty, frontline soldiers.
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Fundamental in the personality of the hysterics is this instability, this emotionality, which is however secondary to an egotistic, easily wounded nature, craving sympathy and respect and often unable legitimately to earn them.
The Nervous Housewife
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I think the Government should do more to look after our wounded ex-servicemen and women.
The Sun
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The 6th Guards Army alone lost up to 30 thous of killed and wounded at Kursk.
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She could feel the strength his lithe body possessed, even wounded and laying on a table.
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_The comedy of Wilmot successful: The wounded stranger seen at a distance: Oratory abandoned with regret: The dangers that attend being honest: A new invitation from Hector: A journey deferred by an arrest, and another accidental sight of the stranger_
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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To this day I recall the piteous expressions of two or three of these wounded horses, as they raised their heads in their suffering and looked at us as we passed between them.
Arthur Peronneau Ford. "Life in the Confederate Army; Being Personal Experiences ..."
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The dragon has wounded him, and his poisonous venom is killing the brave Beowulf.
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A group of men and women advanced cautiously into the clearing, covering the wounded with their slings, blowpipes, and bows.
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They spent their time running backwards and forwards around the vehicles and buildings carrying wounded victims to shelter.
Broken Lives
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The wounded were trampled and drowned in the shallow waves.
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Here an officer and party were posted to supervise the movements of the wounded, who, according to the nature of their wounds, either as walking wounded or in horsed ambulances, were directed to the A.D.S. at Annequin, where Major C. P.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
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His weapon of choice is a deadly flail and he doesn't balk at finishing off wounded soldiers - or at sneaking up on them and strangling them.
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Only I know how wounded my pride was when he stretched on the bed like a lazy cat and fell asleep.
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To stand bedrenched with blood; all wounded with darts was I.
Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems
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His wounded hand wrapped in towels, he is raising the vodka bottle to down its remnants, when "his gaze drifted over the top of the cabinet door and he saw the camera".
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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The council members seemed wounded by some of the barbs thrown their way.
Christianity Today
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Some of our friends must be burning for a mouthful, poor dears; the wounded flesh is drouthy.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The abbat got armed men about him, and falling vpon the moonkes, slue thrée of them at the high altar, and wounded xviij.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
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The screams of the wounded and dying were something to instil fear into the stoutest heart.
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All those wounded were innocent victims.
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So what better time than the feel-good season to mend a wounded friendship?
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He told me how the hospital had opened a telephone medical helpline for those with wounded or sick but who are unable to leave their homes.
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They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
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The elderly male (for anthropoids, like anthropoi, wax fierce and surly with increasing years) will fight, but only from fear, when suddenly startled, or with rage when slightly wounded.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Being Sunday it was foul weather nothing remarkable hapned this day onely the enemy fired at our men on Lechmers [196] Point and wounded one and our men returned the fire from copple hill.
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes
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One month on and my portfolio is filled with the walking wounded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Don Julián, wounded and enfevered, now at last believes the worst.
The Theory of the Theatre
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She slapped him on his wounded cheek, bloodying her hand.
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Two of the wounded crusaders abandoned the tower, but the third one defended himself all day so cleverly from the Turkish attacks that on that occasion he knocked down two Turks at the entrance of the walls with broken spears.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode
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The wounded soldier thrashed about with pain.
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Seven people were wounded when soldiers fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds.
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The wound of the wounded soldier was disimproved for lack of medicine.
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NEW YORK mdash; A homeless Good Samaritan who was ignored while lying, mortally wounded, on a New York City sidewalk will be honored at a ...
Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, Good Samaritan Ignored While Bleeding To Death, To Be Honored At NYC Wake (VIDEO)
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She was fatally wounded in a gun battle and her death is being probed.
The Sun
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One minute she would sound like a wounded angel, the next like a streetwise hellion.
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He was deeply wounded by the treachery of close aides.
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The araguato at the "tail-end" of the bridge, not knowing what had happened, and thinking all was right for swinging himself across, slipped his tail from the branch just at the very same instant that the wounded one let go, and the whole chain fell "souse" into the water!
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
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For wounded civilians at a U.S. military hospital in Afghanistan, the gatekeeper is God.
The Doctor’s War
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A member of an aircraft reconnaissance squadron, he said he was wounded during a rocket and mortar attack in Da Nang, Vietnam, in February 1968 and in a crash landing there in June 1967.
Paul A Bennett
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The hospital will fit any wounded soldier for a false leg.
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Between [Tilda] Swinton's wounded, watchful eyes and [Amber] Tamblyn's soft internality emerges something that transcends the inherently stale nature of their transactions.
GreenCine Daily: Stephanie Daley.
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A woman and her son were critically wounded by gunfire.
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During the fracas, a single gun shot was fired leaving a 24-year-old man wounded..
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Cross offices hoping for a passage on the aid ship, but only foreign passport holders and some wounded civilians were expected to be allowed to board.
Times, Sunday Times
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Happily she was winded rather than wounded and suffered no more than bruising.
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A short distance away were many ladies and gentlemen who had been wounded by splinters of wood or fragments of iron.
Times, Sunday Times
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There the wounded monk leaned against the door-post, his red sword drooping to the floor.
The Lady of Blossholme
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the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee
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Then Herb, Junior, had taken his bow and arrow and wounded one of the beasts in the hindquarters.
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We have received your hails and are willing to accept you and any wounded, so long as you disarm and power down.
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The cemetery was used by the British military from 1708 until 1835 and, despite its name, only two men mortally wounded at Trafalgar are buried here - the majority were buried at sea.
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Often as not the rest of the crew could be split to form the nucleus of a new crew, or more likely, they could be whisked away individually to fly with other crews as replacements for airmen who had been killed or wounded.
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The story tells about a pilot who was wounded during the war but flew again.
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The chapter on Alcott follows two figures - the wounded soldier and the competent nurse - as they become symbols of feminized male and masculinized female.
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I'm going to make a page in my fledgling illustrated journal: a black border decorated with dead and wounded appliances.
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Almost a dozen more have been wounded by snipers who lie in ambush or fire from cars.
The Sun
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Twenty six personnel have been killed and dozens wounded.
The Sun
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She ran like a wounded deer, in a staggering, pain-crazed jink.
COMPULSION
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Both Mccullin and Page were badly wounded, the latter was left with a steel plate in his brain.
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In the most recent attack one man was shot dead and two others were wounded.
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It is clear he is mortally wounded but, true friend that he is, he manages to warn Pepe with his dying breath.
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One man must remain unhurt to protect the wounded.
Tales of the Punjab
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The voices of the nay-sayers are in the ascendancy, questioning the US's ability to reinvent itself, to heal its wounded economy and sustain its leadership in the face of a burgeoning China.
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. Walt Whitman
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Likewise, fighters who feign wounds or injury to lure the enemy within striking range teach their foes to view enemy wounded as a threat, placing all injured soldiers at risk.
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Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded.
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Into this the winds would drop from the high places like broken-winged birds, dashing themselves against the polished walls of the Pyweack, dashing and falling back and crying woundedly.
The Trail Book
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He was wounded by shrapnel in March 1916, trepanned, and died of Spanish flu in November 1918.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The wounded animal left a trail of blood behind it.
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His ship was torpedoed and he was seriously wounded.
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It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory, excluding the requirement of combat.
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The wounded soldier was imbrued with blood.
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He also hinted that compensation awards across the board for wounded servicemen and women would be increased.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a riveting tale about a wounded country, an unlikely friendship and an enduring love.
Times, Sunday Times
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Putting him out of his misery is as much a crime as finishing off a wounded enemy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among them were wounded and bandaged soldiers aboard a clearly marked hospital bus.
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But the wounded feelings and the timidity of Joan of France rendered her incapable of an effort to make the conversation more general; and at length, excepting a few interjectional civilities of the Lady
Quentin Durward
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She wound a bandage round my wounded arm.
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? Amy Tan
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Boo-Khaloum and his steed were both wounded, and Denham was in a similar plight, with the skin of his face grazed by one arrow and two others lodged in his burnoos.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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You are the patron saint of life, your wisdom and sincerity to hold up the sun life, your selfless sacrifice life, heal the wounded bear bitter hardships, pain.
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The unhappy wife of Dr. Zabriskie sank , mortally wounded, to the ground.
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Bruce threw his infantry reserve into the battle, the arrows of the English archers wounded the men-at-arms of their own side, and the remnants of the leading line were tired and disheartened when the final impetus to their rout was given by the historic charge of the "gillies," some thousands of Scottish camp-followers who suddenly emerged from the woods, blowing horns, waving such weapons as they possessed, and holding aloft [v. 03 p. 0355] improvised banners.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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But, as has been proved so often in the past, a wounded Wallaby makes a dangerous beast.
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Further into the night we encountered a ragged group of wounded.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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They braved heavy shell fire to rescue the wounded.
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The military was criticised in the early days of the conflict for failing to give sufficient care to wounded troops.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is clear he is mortally wounded but, true friend that he is, he manages to warn Pepe with his dying breath.
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You can embrace your fears and become a timid, dispirited, wounded person for years—perhaps for a lifetime—or you can reject your dread and believe what God has said to be true.
Recovering From Religious Abuse
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The news of conditions at Scutari, where the ill and wounded soldiers were barracked, was considered scandalous back home in London.
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A man was shot and seriously wounded Friday night in the Anacostia area of Southeast Washington during what appeared to be an attempt to carjack him, D.C. police said.
Man shot, seriously hurt in carjack attempt
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The size of a small hospital, the infirmary had more than enough resources to tend to the wounded, and they were well taken care of.
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The military hospital will fit any wounded soldier for a false leg.
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To lure them from the dense woody thickets scattered through the arid open savannas, he used the ultimate bait: the ‘plaintive bleat of a wounded baby buffalo.’
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ISTANBUL - Ten Turkish policemen were wounded when four suspected leftist guerrillas fired rockets at their bus in Istanbul, in a buildup of violence towards the Kurdish Nowrouz spring festival.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Moans and groans from the wounded reached his ears and filled him with the deepest sorrow.
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If you see him very savagely cut up in "The Revolver," you will recognize the kindly hands which held the bistoury, scalpel, and tenaculum, and the gentleman who wept while he wounded.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
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Three other people were wounded in the still unexplained attack.
The Sun
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Who knows how many wounded hearts will be healed through our intercession?
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In the bell-loft, with other lumber, was an old 'stretcher,' very much less luxurious than the _brancard_ that is used in Paris for carrying the sick and wounded.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
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I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.
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The wounded child soon quieted down and fell asleep.
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Vinton still hovered over his wounded sister and felt extremely awful for shooting her.
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It received its royal prefix in 1917 after members used their own cars as ambulances to transport wounded soldiers and the clubhouse was used to treat the injured.
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Suddenly, the night was rent by a blinding flash, and the point soldier was mortally wounded.
Christianity Today
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With a sweep of one mighty fist, the daemon dashed the wounded warrior aside.
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The flare-up began on Monday when a teenager was wounded in a drive-by shooting.
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Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the city centre.
Times, Sunday Times
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The principal production of this palm is the toddy, which is procured in the same manner as from other palms, or in the following mode: one of the spatae or shoot of fructification is, on the first appearance of fruit, beaten for three successive days with a small stick, with a view of determining the sap to the wounded part.
North Coast Culture
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ROSEMONT, IL -- Marines and other military personnel who are wounded in combat as the result of a high-energy trauma, such as a bomb blast, are likely to develop an abnormality known as heterotopic ossification.
Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
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A white Democrat challenged him; a fight broke out and the Democrat was killed and Tolbert was wounded.
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KABUL — The bombing in February of a guest house favored by Indians in Kabul has forced India to temporarily suspend its medical aid and teaching missions in the Afghan capital because most the staff were either killed or wounded, officials said.
Indian Efforts in Kabul Suspended After February Bombing
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He enlisted in the army, fought at Gallipoli and in France, was wounded three times, and won the Military Cross.
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I was deeply wounded by his comments.
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Millions of pheasants are bred each year specifically for killing, and thousands of them are wounded rather than killed outright.
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The two wounded men were taken to a nearby hospital.
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Hamilton, mortally wounded, was rowed to Greenwich Village, where he died the following day.
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All of them seemed to have survived at least one very close encounter with death (one paused half a minute to eat a walnut and thus avoided getting blown to bits by a rocket that killed two soldiers in Grozny) and most of them had been wounded.
What the heck have I been doing the last few months?
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Getting the yardbird orchestrating attacks off the street is far more important to the lives of your soldiers than a little wounded pride over a screwed up form.
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The place stank strongly of sick and wounded people.
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Insurgent attacks claimed 1,233 lives, and wounded 4,115 people, during the same period.
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When he returned, his unit's vehicles were burning wrecks and many of its personnel were dead or wounded.
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More than 10,000 people have been killed and wounded in this war so far.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jan. 15, in the southern Kandahar province police headquarters by suicide attacks, including the police chief Muhammad Muslim Mujahid, including 3 policemen were killed and two wounded.
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Petty Officer Waddell, without hesitation, leaped from the aircraft and, with intense enemy fire hitting all around him, raced back and forth carrying the wounded and dead to the aircraft.
Heroes or Villains?
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He was seriously wounded.Blood poured out of the wound.
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I play the child, and weep at the recollection — for the grief is still fresh that stunned as well as wounded me — yet never did drops of anguish like these bedew the cheeks of infantine innocence — and why should they mine, that never was stained by a blush of guilt?
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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A British soldier was wounded in the fighting.
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Police rushed to the scene of the shooting and found one person dead and three wounded.
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He saw a wounded soldier lobbing along.
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They are a wounded animal at the moment and, when animals are wounded, they can turn into fearsome predators.
The Sun
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It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory, excluding the requirement of combat.
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In personal relationships, the wounded and unmothered inner child collapses very easily if not attended to.
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If I have wounded your amour-propre, you have done me a more serious injury.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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ERITREA: REBELS CLAIM KILLING 11 GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS wounded some 20 others in a coordinated attack on military camps in southern Eritrea.
InI
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He still carries vivid memories of the bloodshed and terror of fighting in the cornfields of the French countryside - and the jubilation of his dispatch while lying in a hospital bed after being wounded.
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Hollis was forced to sit with the wounded party in a room at Gurney's Inn, suffering a lengthy discourse on surfcasting etiquette.
AMAGANSETT
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Almost every man on the quarter or main-decks of the "Serapis" was killed or wounded by the united fire of the enemy; and the calamity was increased by the accidental ignition of a cartridge of powder near one of the lower deck-ports, and the flames spreading from cartridge to cartridge all the way aft, blew up the whole of the officers and people that were quartered abaft the mainmast.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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I have been shot at, mortared, lost friends, and cared for the wounded.
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Three years later, the worker wounded two coworkers and killed three others in the company cafeteria.
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Pity the man with a wounded conscience!
Times, Sunday Times
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But the racially excluded, the economically disinherited, and the psychologically wounded certainly do.
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The aim of the project is to aid the recovery of wounded, injured and sick Service personnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cuba was beleaguered by the Americans under General Shafter; the forts had been destroyed by Admirals Schley and Sampson; General Linares, in command there, had been wounded and placed _hors de combat_; the large force of Spanish troops within the walls was well armed and munitioned, but being half-starved, the _morale_ of the rank-and-file was at a low ebb, and General Toral, who succeeded General Linares, capitulated.
The Philippine Islands
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On a stretcher they are carrying a mannequin, which is doubling as a wounded man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here Kanfer shines, getting all of Bogart in an evocative, inventive phrase: "wounded, cynical, romantic, and as incorrodible as a zinc bar.
"Tough Without a Gun," by Stefan Kanfer is a new biography of Humphrey Bogart
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She was fatally wounded in a car crash.
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She was severely wounded and he couldn't heal her with what little training he had had.
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One civilian was killed and a second was wounded in crossfire.
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How many days you heal the wounded and rescue the dying, fighting in the first line.
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Another name glided into her petition --- it was that of the wounded Christian, whom fate had placed in the hands of bloodthirsty men, his avowed enemies.
Ivanhoe
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In between these waggons the women are placed for safety, for it is a noticeable fact that very large numbers of women have followed their husbands and fathers to the war, not to act as viragoes, not to play the wanton, not to unsex themselves, not to handle the rifle, but to nurse the wounded, to comfort the dying, and to lay out the dead.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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This is a riveting tale about a wounded country, an unlikely friendship and an enduring love.
Times, Sunday Times
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She whispered a silent prayer that her wounded brother would not die.
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Before he reached the quarter-deck ladder he was told Captain Cooke had been mortally wounded.
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Casualties totaled 77,000 men, which included 8,000 killed in action, 48,000 wounded in action, and 21,000 as prisoners of war or missing in action.
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They were always scavenging for the latest hint of gossip as if they were ravenous animals on the trail of a wounded deer.
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A certain ecuyer, or horsedealer, belonging to the king, being one day under the hands of a barber, who happened to cut the head of a pimple on his face, he started up, and drawing his sword, wounded him desperately in the shoulder.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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He was unhurt although six people nearby were wounded.
The Bullet Catchers
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Even assuming the improbability that all the wounded died, the overall picture does not change.
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Meanwhile, another man was shot and wounded in Belfast as the loyalist feud continues.
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As reported in Franks passim, the Dullard show is like a wounded albatross trying to get off the ground.
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You are the patron saint of life, your wisdom and sincerity to hold up the sun life, your selfless sacrifice life, heal the wounded bear bitter hardships, pain.
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As local residents and officials sifted through the wreckage there were conflicting reports about the precise number of dead and wounded.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't believe I would, if the General hadn't been father's friend and if my 'bunkie' weren't wounded.
Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War
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It is this Ministry which will have its already stretched resources exhausted by treating soldiers and/or civilians hurt and wounded in the process.
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McCain wont even fund the wounded vets coming home. franco
Obama targets McCain, limits mentions of Clinton
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The nose of our plane got shot up, and I was wounded in the arm and groin.
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Think Progress » McCain falsely claims no American servicemembers have been killed or wounded in Iraq in the past three months.
Think Progress » McCain falsely claims no American servicemembers have been killed or wounded in Iraq in the past three months.
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His arm looked wounded with a bit of dried blood still caked on.
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There were already many thousands of wounded German soldiers lying uncared for in the Stalingrad cellars.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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‘My aide here,’ he gestured to the man standing next to him, ‘will take you and your unwounded men to where they shall sleep for the duration of your stay in our mighty city.’
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Watson was wounded in the battle, convalesced in a military hospital at Peshawar, and made his way back to London, where, after an unspecified passage of time, was introduced to Holmes in the laboratories of St. Bart's Hospital.
A three pipe problem
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It is scheduled to open next year and will be a leading centre for rehabilitation, serving wounded combat troops for decades to come.
The Sun
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Wounded troops who have recovered and returned to work medically downgraded were also to be considered.
The Sun
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Moreouer, the master and his company that were in the said Dogger they beate and wounded, so that they vtterly lost their fishing for that yeere, the master and his said companie being endamaged thereby, to the summe of 200. nobles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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All Montanes, a steady baseliner playing his 10th French Open, had to do was win two out of the next three points against a wounded, dispirited opponent who couldn't run and couldn't serve harder than 80 mph.
Hard-Luck Story for Fognini
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Bury the dead, bayonet the wounded and keep moving.
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He had not been wounded, let alone shot, because the attacker's pistol was loaded with blanks.
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He is trying to attone for his role in the bloodshed of countless thousands of innocent Iraqis as well as the killed and wounded U.S. and coalition men and women.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Powell Says U.S. Went Into Iraq Without Enough Troops
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• British dead and wounded in Afghanistan, month by month• Get the Afghan civilian casualties data
Afghanistan civilian casualties: year by year, month by month
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In 2002 when a political earthquake saw the Socialist's presidential hope Lionel Jospin knocked out by the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, Hollande, then party general secretary, was seen as an uncontroversial, soothing, and safe pair of hands – just what was needed to nurse the wounded and limping party back to health.
François Hollande nomination marks the triumph of Monsieur Ordinary
