MAIM in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for MAIM, such as:
1. Tom was seriously maimed in the war.
2. And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed.
3. Stephen drew back his maimed and quivering right arm and held out his left hand.
4. The hospital was crowded, we believe the railroad accident to maim lots of people.
5. He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.
2. And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed.
3. Stephen drew back his maimed and quivering right arm and held out his left hand.
4. The hospital was crowded, we believe the railroad accident to maim lots of people.
5. He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.
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Meanings and Examples of MAIM
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maim
v. wound seriously; cause permanent loss of function of limb or part of body
Classic Sentence:
1 And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.
2 His own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm.
3 There were so many dead, so many wounded and maimed for life, so many widowed, so many orphaned.
4 All the men of that description, barring the badly maimed ones, have already got something to do.
5 It came to pass, that in the ambergris affair Stubb's after-oarsman chanced so to sprain his hand, as for a time to become quite maimed; and, temporarily, Pip was put into his place.
6 Indeed, many a maimed and feeble soldier was compelled to drag his exhausted limbs in the rear of the columns, for the want of the necessary means of conveyance in that wilderness.
7 And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed.
8 Stephen drew back his maimed and quivering right arm and held out his left hand.
9 At his first violent sin he had felt a wave of vitality pass out of him and had feared to find his body or his soul maimed by the excess.
10 Higg, the son of Snell, at length replied, "I am but a maimed man, but that I can at all stir or move was owing to her charitable assistance."
11 It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.
12 The hunter, who had already abandoned his intention of maiming the runner, mused a moment, and then made a gesture, which instantly brought his two red companions to his side.
13 He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.
Example Sentence:
1 The hospital was crowded, we believe the railroad accident to maim lots of people.
2 But a day after Spain suffered its deadliest rail disaster in decades — which killed 80 people and maimed scores of others — one question surpassed all others: Why was the train moving so fast?
3 Tom was seriously maimed in the war.