contused
Example Sentences
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“The contused areas show the swelling to be receding.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2018
That day, he’d seen an elderly man who had taken a bad spill two or three weeks earlier, resulting in a contused kidney and a compression fracture of his lower spine.
From The New Yorker • May 4, 2015
I’m all in favor of marketers evolving beyond the farting animals and contused groins of Super Bowls past.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2015
Her aunts, Faith and Doreen, are superficially brassy but contused underneath.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013
He was badly contused, and for a short time insensible; but he quickly sprung to his feet again, mounted his horse, and maintained his place in the fight as if nothing had happened.
From With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
