How do you use Injuring in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Injuring meaning
present participle and gerund of injure
Using Injuring
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of injure
- In the example corpus, injuring often appears in combinations such as: and injuring, injuring his, after injuring.
Context around Injuring
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 14 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Injuring
- In this selection, "injuring" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seriously, store, severely, two, people and multiple stand out and add context to how "injuring" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a fight injuring two students and and severely injuring another. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "injuring" sits close to words such as absorption, bolt and col, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with injuring
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A man has pleaded not guilty to injuring a woman by dangerous driving. (13 words)
A drunk driver in the Russian city of Ryazan crashed straight into a convenience store injuring one man. (18 words)
After entering a biology classroom, she opened fire, killing one of her fellow students and injuring another four, before then killing herself. (22 words)
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Shivkuti) Rajesh Kumar Yadav said that Prabhat Yadav, an M.A. student of Allahabad University, was making a bomb in his room in P.C. Banerjee Hostel when it exploded, badly injuring his right hand. (39 words)
An Illawarra man accused of seriously injuring a man by attacking him with an axe at Bunnings has breached his bail by allegedly making threats to a woman in a series of text messages, a court has heard. (38 words)
Authorities have breached a white van in Torrance that they believe is connected to the gunman who opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, killing 10 people and injuring 10 others. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
While inside, the FBI said that Bowers opened fire, killing and injuring people, as well as injuring multiple public safety officers who responded to the incident.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's Sumatra island early Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey, killing at least one person and injuring dozens as locals rushed out of buildings seeking safety.
A drunk driver in the Russian city of Ryazan crashed straight into a convenience store injuring one man.
After entering a biology classroom, she opened fire, killing one of her fellow students and injuring another four, before then killing herself.
A major earthquake rocked southern Turkey and northern Syria early on Feb. 6, killing over 2,000 people and injuring many thousands more.
A man has pleaded not guilty to injuring a woman by dangerous driving.
An 18-year-old male suspected of injuring the young man and woman was found by a canine patrol at 12:32 a.m. just a few blocks from the stadium.
Andrei Knyazev, a Russian diplomat based in Ottawa, drove his car into a sidewalk in 2001, killing one pedestrian and severely injuring another.
An Illawarra man accused of seriously injuring a man by attacking him with an axe at Bunnings has breached his bail by allegedly making threats to a woman in a series of text messages, a court has heard.
Another teen was sentenced to in August 2022 for firing several shots in a hallway at Heritage High School during a fight, injuring two students.
A QAnon adherent was arrested on felony charges for allegedly setting up booby traps at her home that wound up injuring a door-to-door salesman.
A Quthing man has asked the High Court to allow him to sue Commissioner of Police, Holomo Molibeli, for M400 000 after police officers allegedly assaulted him with a hammer, seriously injuring him.
A Russian missile on Friday struck a medical facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing one and injuring 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
A serious fire in Contra Costa county started in a senior housing complex on Saturday, displacing an unknown number of residents and injuring one.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Shivkuti) Rajesh Kumar Yadav said that Prabhat Yadav, an M.A. student of Allahabad University, was making a bomb in his room in P.C. Banerjee Hostel when it exploded, badly injuring his right hand.
At 10:26 p.m. nearly nine miles from the first incident, the suspect or suspects threw another rock through a windshield in Arvada, CO, injuring the driver.
A tour boat ferrying 29 people through an underground cave along the Erie Canal in upstate New York capsized Monday, killing one person and injuring several others.
Authorities have breached a white van in Torrance that they believe is connected to the gunman who opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, killing 10 people and injuring 10 others.
A woman has been arrested after she drove her vehicle several times at or through a religious group demonstrating on a sidewalk, hitting and injuring one man, Montana police said Sunday.
Charges are pending against a U-Haul truck driver who went on a rampage through Brooklyn Monday morning, critically injuring two people and hurting six others.
Common combinations with injuring
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: