How do you use Hurt in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like harm or pain, plus the exact meaning.
Hurt in a sentence
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Hurt meaning
- To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- To be painful.
Synonyms of Hurt
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Using Hurt
- The main meaning on this page is: To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. | To cause (somebody) emotional pain. | To be painful.
- Useful related words include: harm, pain, damage, suffer.
- Possible Dutch translations are: pijn doen, kwetsen.
- In the example corpus, hurt often appears in combinations such as: to hurt, was hurt, hurt the.
Example sentences (20)
I’ve been hurt and I don’t want to hurt anybody and I know that may not be the healthiest viewpoint but that’s just where I’m at, and I don’t feel like telling the world who hurt me is going to solve anything,’ she said.
He elaborated, "You're either lying that you are hurt, or you're a bit mental for being hurt.
In both versions, the song shows its singers haunted by the ways they’ve hurt or been hurt by their past relationships.
I would never hurt Maggie, and I would never hurt Paul – ever – under any circumstances,” Murdaugh said.
Kip up and his knee is hurt, but not hurt enough to hit a shooting star press!
My father could be maddening and small-minded, but I had been trying to match him in meanness, to hurt him because I was hurt.
Not that this hurt us (by that point, we were too damaged to be hurt by anything), but it left us with a privileged relationship with failure, an affinity for it, even a special flair for it.
So, You Hurt My Feelings, the movie – you did not, obviously, hurt my feelings – what about it spoke to you?
We have got to start talking about the ways in which we hurt each other and the ways in which we hurt each other also through silence, because nobody can unload the pain or the shame or the guilt by not speaking,” states project participant Marion Riggs.
And I was shocked and appalled and hurt that the school hurt him,” she said.
But now I feel like if I bring up any memories of things that genuinely hurt me or even things that don’t bother me now, she’s just going to get upset at me for saying things to hurt her and not actually listen.
His eyes began to throb; every muscle hurt; even breathing hurt.
Hurt people hurt people, as the saying goes.
If you can’t think of something nice to say about these people’s homes…You’re not going to hurt my feelings, but you are going to hurt someone’s feelings who lives in that house.
I kept thinking of the phrase "hurt people hurt people" and used it as a motivating mantra when I wanted to quit therapy.
I learned how to get slapped in the chest and not act like it hurt, because it actually does hurt.
I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt someone that didn’t need to be hurt.
My knees would hurt… in fact, everything hurt!
So if he’s going to hurt anyone, he’s going to hurt his own constituents.
We need a government that will hurt those who need to be hurt so we can have the country we want.
Common combinations with hurt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to hurt 21×
- was hurt 15×
- hurt the 14×
- hurt and 13×
- hurt by 13×
- would hurt 11×
- get hurt 11×
- will hurt 10×
- be hurt 9×
- it hurt 9×