Hurting is an English word with synonyms like pain or symptom. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hurting meaning
present participle and gerund of hurt
Using Hurting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of hurt
- Useful related words include: pain, symptom.
- In the example corpus, hurting often appears in combinations such as: hurting the, is hurting, are hurting.
Context around Hurting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hurting
- In this selection, "hurting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, keep, soren, disproportionately, himself, now and magu stand out and add context to how "hurting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include again before hurting himself at and as disproportionately hurting black people. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hurting" sits close to words such as aston, ct and geopolitical, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hurting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Just give me mercy 'cause I keep hurting, hurting. (9 words)
And we have people who are hurting, and they’re hurting now. (12 words)
These tariffs are not only hurting America, they're hurting the world. (12 words)
And by showing Soren hurting over the loss and keeping the job of fighting back going, it'd have emotionally resonated a lot more, especially when Talos admits G'iah was off working for the terrorist while he was murdering her mom. (42 words)
And really, it’s kind of a clever way to artificially raise your free-throw percentage a couple of points, if you can find a form that triggers lane violations without hurting your own ability to shoot. (37 words)
Unfortunately for Barkley, his ability to sit out the season doesn’t really give him any leverage because he’d be hurting himself a whole lot more than he’d be hurting the Giants. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
And we have people who are hurting, and they’re hurting now.
Unfortunately for Barkley, his ability to sit out the season doesn’t really give him any leverage because he’d be hurting himself a whole lot more than he’d be hurting the Giants.
Let me tell you, what Magu is going through today is hurting the country more than it is hurting Magu, if you don’t know.
YouРђЎre hurting, really saddened by it and IРђЎm sure heРђЎs still hurting by it.
These tariffs are not only hurting America, they're hurting the world.
But having men say “and this specifically is how they are hurting us,” and “this is how law and policy is hurting us,” takes that further.
Just give me mercy 'cause I keep hurting, hurting.
Aku people are cognizant of their rich tradition and cultural heritage which amongst other things, forbids the mere thought of hurting an ‘NWA (grandchild) let alone dehumanizing or killing a grandchild.
And by showing Soren hurting over the loss and keeping the job of fighting back going, it'd have emotionally resonated a lot more, especially when Talos admits G'iah was off working for the terrorist while he was murdering her mom.
Anderson marked the anniversary Tuesday by encouraging people who are hurting to reach out for help.
And he’s also got the side that understands, at least to some extent, my dad was hurting.
And really, it’s kind of a clever way to artificially raise your free-throw percentage a couple of points, if you can find a form that triggers lane violations without hurting your own ability to shoot.
And they cry about photo ID requirements as disproportionately hurting Black people.
Appearing to be raw and hurting, Elnicki instantly garnered rave reviews on social media for skewering Shallcross, who apologized to her.
As sensible as it is to be wary of hurting anyone on the ground, this balloon is already an indicator of a huge problem for the United States.
A woman had slipped on wet grass after descending Coniston Old Man, hurting her ankle.
Bitan says that Netanyahu realizes he made a mistake and accuses Levin of hurting the Likud party, saying the tactics and strategy for advancing the shakeup to the judicial system were wrong.
Broncos running back from Wednesday’s practice after hurting his thumb, but there does not appear to be much concern about his health moving forward.
But the errors began to creep in again and he was broken again before hurting himself at 15-30 in the eighth game, which he lost before gingerly walking back to his seat.
Capable of fighting and hurting a Logia type in Ace, and strong enough to hurt Kaido with his attacks.
Common combinations with hurting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hurting the 29×
- is hurting 24×
- are hurting 17×
- of hurting 15×
- was hurting 12×
- and hurting 12×
- hurting his 10×
- hurting and 7×
- be hurting 7×
- hurting her 7×