WOUND in a Sentence

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For WOUND, below is one of 296 sentences:
Her sweet sympathy and her bright-eyed interest in every word he uttered were balm upon the wound left by Suellen's supposed defection.

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 Meanings and Examples of WOUND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wound
 n.  a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
 n.  the act of inflicting a wound
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  By a devious track between the fields they wound back to the Starkfield road.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Scarlett and her father each assured the other solemnly that to bring such matters to the ears of Ellen would only hurt her, and nothing would induce them to wound her gentleness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  It's easier to walk with a leg wound than with dysentery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  He was trying to smile but his face was as white and drawn as a man bleeding from an internal wound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  She found Carey Ashburn on the bottom layer of wounded in an ox cart, barely alive from a bullet wound in his head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Scarlett felt a small pain in her heart as of nerves numbed by a deep wound, struggling to make themselves felt again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  The windlass creaked slowly as the rope wound up, each creak bringing the bucket nearer the top.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  She could have ground her heel into the gaping wound which had been his nose and taken sweet pleasure in the feel of his warm blood on her bare feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  "Oh, it wasn't so bad, just a flesh wound," he said deprecatingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  Now he looked like a little old man, so bent was he by the wound in his hip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  Her sweet sympathy and her bright-eyed interest in every word he uttered were balm upon the wound left by Suellen's supposed defection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  The edge in his voice spoke of a raw, unhealed wound that ached within him and his words brought shame to her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  But for his wound, they'd be headed for Texas by now--all of them--but he couldn't ride far and they wouldn't leave him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  As the full impact of the meaning smote her, Melanie became so embarrassed that she fumbled with the bandage until it slid off the wound entirely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
16  Blood started out of his wound.
17  Blood was still oozing out of the wound.
18  This herbal ointment will help to close up your wound quickly.
19  He explored the wound with his finger, trying to establish its extent.
20  We eventually wound up in a super little hotel by the sea.
21  We eventually wound up staying in a little hotel a few miles from town.
22  He wound a small bandage round her finger.
23  The poor guy wound up with a slug in his stomach.
24  The wound on your hand would heal over soon.
25  The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
26  I don't have any open wound healing is slaughtered,nobody knows my heart setbacks.
27  When the wound is healed, the pain is forgotten.
28  Press on the wound with a large pad of cotton wool.
29  Removing the splinters from the wound was a long and painful process.
30  The blood around the wound clotted quickly.