How to Use wound in a Sentence
- She suffered a knife wound to her thigh.
- Her mother's scorn left a wound that never healed.
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Kraus was found on the ground in the kitchen in a pool of blood with a wound on the back of one of his legs.
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Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
20 Feb. 2024
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There’s sound, wound, bound, pound, round and so forth.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
17 Apr. 2023
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The result is a weeping wound on the skin that will try to rid the body of the venom.
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Elizabeth Gamillo,
Discover Magazine,
2 Oct. 2023
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Paddle in, take care of the bite wound and paddle back out to catch more waves.
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Jonathan Edwards,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2023
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There, a man who had gunshot wounds was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Lilly Price,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Mar. 2023
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Police found Bell on the ground with gunshot wounds to her body.
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Olivia Mitchell,
cleveland,
16 Aug. 2023
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Jensen, who was pronounced dead at the scene, had five bullet wounds in her back.
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Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
22 July 2023
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The guild argues that many of the studios’ wounds are self-inflicted.
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Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2023
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When to get help Get help if a wound is large, gaping, or gushing blood.
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Stacey Colino,
Parents,
20 Sep. 2023
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The victim suffered a wound to his chest, and was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.
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Deanese Williams-Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2024
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Deputies arrived at the scene and found a man between 45 and 50 years old suffering from a stab wound.
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Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2023
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This one was smaller, with a reddish mark on its pale belly, like a wound that had healed.
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Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
19 Dec. 2023
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Nineteen of the migrants were treated for light wounds on Friday.
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Gaia Pianigiani,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2023
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Hernandez was found dead with a gunshot wound to the upper body.
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Natalie Kainz,
NBC News,
6 Nov. 2023
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Five other victims, three men and two women, were all found with gunshot wounds in the 600 block of P Street.
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Stephen Sorace,
Fox News,
18 Mar. 2024
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The man, identified by police as Jose Bolanos, 37, was found dead with a gunshot wound.
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Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Dec. 2023
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The next day, a tote-like bag was found in the water containing a human head with a gunshot wound, the report states.
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Nicole Acosta,
Peoplemag,
4 Aug. 2023
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As Twine ran away, bleeding from a gunshot wound, his teeth fell onto the pavement.
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Nate Gartrell,
The Mercury News,
20 Feb. 2024
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The priest succumbed to stab wounds at a hospital in Omaha.
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Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
16 Dec. 2023
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One man died of his wounds and the other victims were taken to hospitals, Smith said.
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Clarence Williams,
Washington Post,
11 Apr. 2024
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As the crowd clapped, emotions were bittersweet to the family tending to this open wound.
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The Indianapolis Star,
23 Mar. 2023
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Two of them died from wounds to the head after finding loose firearms, loaded and unattended.
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Henri Hollis,
ajc,
7 Sep. 2023
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Officers found the couple with gunshot wounds to the upper body.
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Jasmine Hilton,
Washington Post,
24 Mar. 2023
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She was taken to the hospital to receive treatment for wounds.
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Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
4 Dec. 2023
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One woman was shot in the back, the agency said, while one man sustained a gunshot wound to his leg, and a second man was shot in the finger.
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CBS News,
10 Sep. 2023
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Guerra was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the Kia Optima, though his manner of death is still pending.
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Esme Mazzeo,
Peoplemag,
30 Dec. 2023
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Officers found a man with multiple gunshot wounds on the ground near a car.
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Omar Rodríguez Ortiz,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2024
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The cause of death for Chang was a gunshot wound to the head, and the cause of death for Navarro Velez was multiple gunshot wounds, the coroner's office said.
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Rachel Schilke,
Washington Examiner,
7 Dec. 2023
- The soldier's leg was wounded by a grenade.
- Losing the match wounded his pride.
- Four people were seriously wounded in the explosion.
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The attack left 10 dead, all of them Black, and wounded three more.
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Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford,
Anchorage Daily News,
13 Apr. 2023
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In Kabul, pickup trucks crammed with men and boys wound their way through the city.
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Lawrence Richard,
Fox News,
16 Aug. 2023
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One was killed, and the other showed up wounded on Hope Street a few blocks away.
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John Spink,
ajc,
31 Mar. 2023
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The assailant who opened fire in the bank, killing five and wounding nine, made Louisville the scene of a mass shooting for the fourth time since the start of 2022.
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Dan Horn,
The Enquirer,
11 Apr. 2023
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Brazil led by one goal at halftime but wound up losing 2-1.
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Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2024
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Unfortunately, a portion of that amount has wound up in the hands of thieves.
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Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2023
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The kindergarten was unoccupied at the time of the attack, and no bystanders were wounded in the blast.
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Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News,
Fox News,
3 Nov. 2023
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As the fighters headed toward the man’s compound at about 1 a.m., a sniper fired, wounding one of Tabesh’s men.
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Antonio Olivo,
Washington Post,
13 Apr. 2023
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Thousands more have been wounded and are unable to fight.
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The Editors,
National Review,
13 Mar. 2024
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More than a thousand soldiers, mostly on the Union side, were killed or wounded.
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Charles Bethea,
The New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2023
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The strike killed three U.S. service personnel and wounded at least 34 more.
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The Editors,
National Review,
29 Jan. 2024
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The suspect was fatally wounded, and two deputies were shot.
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Olivia Lloyd,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Jan. 2024
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Deputies arrived and found Scott wounded in the vehicle.
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Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Apr. 2024
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By the end of the rampage, an elderly man was dead and three other men were shot and wounded, police said.
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Zenebou Sylla,
CNN,
10 July 2023
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Soldiers opened fire, killing one and wounding the other.
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Sam McNeil,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 July 2023
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Two were shot and killed by Israeli troops and another 11 were wounded.
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
25 Nov. 2023
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Eighteen members of the battalion were killed and many more were wounded.
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Luke Mogelson,
The New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2024
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The aim would be to let in aid for Palestinians and let out more foreign nationals and wounded.
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Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2023
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Six students and a teacher were wounded in the shooting rampage.
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Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
8 Dec. 2023
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Nine of the soldiers were killed and two were seriously wounded.
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Loveday Morris,
Washington Post,
2 Nov. 2023
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At least seven children between the ages of 12 and 17 were wounded in the shooting near a mall in the downtown area, CNN reported at the time.
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Zenebou Sylla and Sabrina Souza,
CNN,
10 Apr. 2024
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Gunfire wounded Brendan Ray, who was on the ground when Waters moved to him and shot him at least five more time, the affidavit states.
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Grant Lancaster,
Arkansas Online,
6 Aug. 2023
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Eventually the parties and events wound down, and after two more showers on Sunday, the rain stopped too.
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Katie Bain,
Billboard,
8 Sep. 2023
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Pickett wound up unseating Mitch Trubisky for the starting job in Week 5.
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Bob McManaman,
The Arizona Republic,
27 Jan. 2023
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Christian's report says the bullet that wounded the trooper came from Paez Terán's gun.
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CBS News,
6 Oct. 2023
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In addition to the 18 people killed, 13 others were wounded.
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Nathan Smith,
ABC News,
3 Jan. 2024
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Her husband found Baker wounded in the driver’s seat of a car on Memorial Day 2020.
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Aria Jones,
Dallas News,
19 Sep. 2023
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