maimed
Example Sentences
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She’d begun painting only months earlier, after being injured in a traffic accident that maimed her for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
Animal welfare campaigners said the proposed legislation would stop greyhounds being maimed and killed, but critics called it a needless bill that would not improve animal welfare.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Since 2007, more than 920 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by long line ropes that commercial crabbers use to haul up cages from the sea floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
But many other protesters — understandably aroused by videos of starving, maimed, or dying Gazan children — aren’t thinking that far ahead.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024
Dispirited and battleworn, carrying their fallen leader, the maimed and wounded hobbled painfully along at the rear, the bitter ashes of vanquishment and defeat mingling with the dust from their stumbling vanguard.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
