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How to use the word wound in a Sentence? Page #5

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What the vets found was that the skin on the surface was damaged and broken, but the actual tissue below was intact, so the wound looked a lot worse than it actually was.

Glenn Phillips

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think the take-home message for patients from this particular study is that showering with water within 48 hours after elective surgery is safe if the surgical wound is small, had minimal contamination, and was primarily closed with( stitches).

Heather Evans

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We’re not sure how the gunshot wound was sustained.

Clarkesville Police Chief Brad Barrett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't have to battle a 400-pound person in the mirror. If the battle wound is the excess skin and I'm gonna live a lot longer and if I can help someone else lose weight, then it's worth it.

Jane Pearson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One nurse told me she's been here for 18 years. She said she's hardly seen children ever survive a gunshot wound to the head.

Dorphise Jean

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent in new oil, natural gas, iron ore, coal and many other commodities in the expectation that China would continue to grow insatiably forever, that's changed, so many of the investments made by governments and companies now look really bad, and that's hitting economies and company stocks hard ... It's been a huge bubble, a massive misallocation of capital which now has to be wound down.

Frederic Neumann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For example, we could print on a latex hospital glove, cover it in silk with these other chemistries, so that when you wear the gloves and touch a contaminated surface it would change color to red, or imagine you have a complex cut -- you just take a picture and send it to the printer and print a special bandage with drug distribution that follows the shape of the wound. And this could be done on a desktop computer, like printing a picture.

Fiorenzo Omenetto

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov died of splinters from grenades, not a gunshot wound.

Anton Geraschenko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In terms of the political consciousness, those individuals are on the minds of everyday Iranians, as long as that issue is not resolved and those people continue to be in limbo I think that open wound continues to fester for hardliners, reformists or ordinary Iranians who are not necessarily political in any way.

Faraz Sanei

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

She said Spencer Stone put Spencer Stone finger on her husband's wound and spoke to Spencer Stone :' Hey man, so tell me where you're from. So you are from Virginia ? I'm from California. Everything will be OK.' yes, I'm sure because he lost a tremendous amount of blood, and it saved his life.

Isabelle Risacher Moogalian

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Despite what one self-absorbed, heartless killer tried to do, in the end we won, in the end we wound up with the most points. We have the most self-worth. Game over.

Amee Gharbi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I begin to tie him up with help from Chris, another passenger, i notice a man had his throat cut at which (time) Spencer begins to apply pressure to the neck wound before he bled out.

Anthony Sadler

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's like a serious wound you want to staunch the flow, that's not what happening in this country right now.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They heard a shot, and upon entering the theater, the suspect was found deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It appears the shooter died from a self inflicted gun shot wound after discharging his weapon numerous times.

Lafayette Police

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I got off a plane today at the airbase and I met a whole bunch of military folks there waiting to see me, they all made reference to my son and his military service and expressed their condolences. And although it's still kind of an open wound, it gave me a sense of strength knowing they all meant it.

Beau Biden in public remarks

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Due to disjointed laws and basic incompetence on many levels, the U.S. has suffered a self-inflicted wound in the murder of our daughter, legislation should be discussed, enacted or changed to take these undocumented immigrant felons off our streets for good.

Jim Steinle

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have violated the Hippocratic oath and violated the trust of my patients, i do not know how I can heal the wound. I do not know how to express the sorrow and the shame.

Farid Fata

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They introduced a measure in 2012 that changed the support scheme and wound back a lot of the incentives that were given for renewable energy when they were at the height of the last (financial) crisis, there will be some developers in Greece that decide to carry on, but I think it is going to be relatively limited.

Jonathan Robinson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the European Council chooses solidarity, then good. If it doesn't, we have a Plan B ready but that would be a wound inflicted on Europe.

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For this patient, it means a new lease on life, he had series of cancers of the scalp and skull that were treated with various surgeries and radiation that left him with a large wound that was all the way down to his brain.

Jesse Selber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He had series of cancers of the scalp and skull that were treated with various surgeries and radiation that left him with a large wound that was all the way down to his brain.

Jesse Selber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The problem is the way it was written and implemented. We have too wide a net. We have too many people in prison. And we wound up spending - putting so many people in prison that there wasn’t enough money left to educate them, train them for new jobs and increase the chances when they came out that they could live productive lives.

Bill Clinton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The problem is the way it was written and implemented is we cast too wide a net and we had too many people in prison, and we wound up...putting so many people in prison that there wasn't enough money left to educate them, train them for new jobs and increase the chances when they came out so they could live productive lives.

President Bill Clinton on Wednesday

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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