How to Use injure in a Sentence

injure

verb
  • She fell and slightly injured her arm.
  • She fell and injured herself.
  • Several people were badly injured in the accident.
  • Neither the driver of the SUV nor the driver of the truck were injured.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • A lot of my friends were killed and injured also the sheikh in our mosque was killed.
    Sami Zayara, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The names of the people killed or injured have not been released.
    Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • One man was pronounced dead at the scene and at least nine were injured.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The 18-year-old was not wearing a seat belt and was injured, troopers said in the report.
    Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The driver of the other car was injured and had been shot, police said.
    Austindedios, oregonlive, 9 July 2023
  • Forty-nine people were killed and dozens more were injured.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • At least one person was killed, and dozens were injured.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 2 June 2024
  • The truck driver was killed, and nobody else was injured.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 24 June 2023
  • One man was killed and three were injured when a plane struck the side of a building by the airport on Tuesday.
    Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2023
  • Among recurring wars no one dares to injure on the ride home.
    Nikki Wallschlaeger Anne Boyer, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • About two thousand children in Ukraine have been injured or killed in two and a half years of war.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Mink might not be big enough to go after a big dog, but that doesn't mean they can't get injured by one.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • No one was injured in the process of the pursuit or the PIT maneuver, the state police release states.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Police did not say if the driver of the Toyota, a 57-year-old woman, was injured.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Cowing fumbled on the play and appeared to injure his right knee.
    Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Crum, who played in three games as a freshman before being injured, was third on the depth chart.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • They had been struck and injured while walking to school on National Walk to School Day.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Colt Gray, 14, is being tried as an adult in the shooting, which killed four and injured nine others.
    Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Twenty-five others were shot and even more were injured during that hellish scene of guns and blood.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 10 July 2023
  • The truck’s driver, who was alone in the vehicle, was not injured, McDaniel said.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
  • The goal is to scare an animal away, not injure it, says the FWC on their coyote hazing video.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Of the people injured, 15 people were on the boat at the time of the explosion and one person was on the dock, highway patrol said.
    Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • White said that the motto for every stunt person is that you will get hurt, but the goal is never to get injured.
    Al Topich Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But the other half of that dominant duo is injured and will miss the beginning of the season.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
  • One person died, and 22 others were injured by the gunfire, nine of whom were children.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Police said that no one was injured during the incident.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2024

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