HARMFUL in a Sentence

Learn HARMFUL 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 HARMFUL, such as:
1. She actually considered fresh air harmful.
2. The drug can be harmful if taken in excess.
3. And most of them are harmful, especially the women.
4. As Mr. Rushworth is to act too, there can be no harm.
5. We should stop factories from producing harmful gases.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HARMFUL
harmful
 a.  causing or capable of causing harm
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  And most of them are harmful, especially the women.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER X
2  He will not hinder anything useful nor allow anything harmful.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVI
3  You can understand that there are reasons for this and that I could not have exiled the Postmaster had he not been a harmful person.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XI
4  It was impossible to take bread and clothes from our hungry and indispensable soldiers to give to the French who, though not harmful, or hated, or guilty, were simply unnecessary.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER X
5  The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful, for it is impossible to say for what it was useful or harmful.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
6  He looked on this spiritual exercise as a harmful and dangerous abuse of the fancy.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
7  "To enter into all the details of your feelings I have no right, and besides, I regard that as useless and even harmful," began Alexey Alexandrovitch.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  The schools are no good to me, but positively harmful, as I told you.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
9  And the fact in itself still seemed harmless enough; only it was a fertile source of harmful complications.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
10  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...
11  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
12  "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
13  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
14  As Mr. Rushworth is to act too, there can be no harm.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  If he could so command his affections, hers should do her no harm.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  She actually considered fresh air harmful.
2  Biodegradable packaging helps to limit the amount of harmful chemicals released into the atmosphere.
3  Rubbishy commercials and harmful programmes contribute to the rise in violence and crime in the street.
4  Such laws could protect the consumer from harmful or dangerous remedies.
5  The drug can be harmful if taken in excess.
6  The drug is not harmful per se, but is dangerous when taken with alcohol.
7  Water is not an effective shield against the sun's more harmful rays.
8  There is abundant evidence that cars have a harmful effect on the environment.
9  Some people refuse to buy goods that are overpackaged, because they feel that it is harmful to the environment.
10  It is generally believed that smoking is harmful to health.
11  It's important to protect your skin from the harmful effects of the sun.
12  We should stop factories from producing harmful gases.
13  Depletion of the ozone layer leaves the earth's surface increasingly exposed to harmful radiation from the sun.
14  More than a decade ago the National Academy of Sciences recommended that new technology be used to target harmful bacteria.
15  Since the additional dose is not harmful and provides extra protection, everyone is recommended to get the second one.