HARM in a Sentence

Learn HARM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
209 example sentences for HARM, such as:
1. Harm watch, harm catch.
2. Hard work never did anyone any harm.
3. He may look fierce, but he means no harm.
4. It is good to beware by other men's harm.
5. A few late nights never did anyone any harm.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HARM
harm
 n.  the occurrence of a change for the worse
 n.  any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I knew, this young man here had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly snackled as ever I saw in my life.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
2  I am quite sure that you can mitigate in no other way the wrong and harm you have done.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
3  "A cup of wine will do thee no harm," he added, filling and handing to the swineherd a richer drought than Gurth had ever before tasted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  She waited; and he had another try, doing more harm than good.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  As Mr. Rushworth is to act too, there can be no harm.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  If he could so command his affections, hers should do her no harm.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  I have promised for your being quiet and silent; if you are not, you will only do harm to yourself and me too, and perhaps be my death.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  They don't mean to harm you; whatever they make you do, is no fault of yours.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  'I meant no harm, young man,' observed Mr. Bumble, majestically.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  Yes, as long as I could bear their noise; but they are so unmanageable that they do me more harm than good.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  The beauty here visible would in no long time be ruthlessly over-run by its parasite, thought, which might just as well have fed upon a plainer exterior where there was nothing it could harm.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
13  He did pay her a little attention a year ago; but there's no harm in that.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
14  A new and most unpleasant system of menace had begun, and the intent appeared to be to do him grievous bodily harm.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
15  I have not done what you suppose; but if to have done no harm at all is the only innocence recognized, I am beyond forgiveness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  They might well be prepared to do you harm in order to achieve their purpose.
2  Hard work never did anyone any harm.
3  A few late nights never did anyone any harm.
4  The treatment they gave him did him more harm than good.
5  Don't worry, we'll see that the children come to no harm.
6  Both deny conspiring to cause actual bodily harm.
7  The court case will do serious harm to my business.
8  It is good to beware by other men's harm.
9  Harm watch, harm catch.
10  The move would cause irreparable harm to the organization.
11  He was clearly intent on inflicting serious harm on someone.
12  At first, the drug does no harm, but cumulatively its effects are bad.
13  He accused foreign nations of having a hidden agenda to harm French influence.
14  Most teachers hold that students will come to no great harm if they go to a discotheque now and then.
15  He may look fierce, but he means no harm.