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How to use the word maimed in a Sentence?

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So what's happened to Black Lives Matter? What's happened to Antifa? … One city after another destroyed people, killed people, [and] maimed. Oh yes, yes! – but it was mostly peaceful, according to the press, we conservatives, we oppose violence. We believe in civil society. We believe in law and order. Jan. 6 is a demonstration of what the Democrats believe in. What do they believe in? They believe in power.

Drew Angerer/Pool via AP

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the street. They will take pot... and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam, because there is a war on and I pray that there will be a just and honest peace -- that still doesn't give us a free ticket not to try to work for better things such as against crime in the streets, for better education and better health for our people.

Eartha Kitt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.

Leonard Hand

added by Normando
4 years ago

Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war!

Jan Smuts

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The last U.S. citizen who fell into the custody of the Kim regime returned home maimed from torture and did not survive, we have received no assurances from the U.S. government about the safety and security of the U.S. nationals it is now targeting.

Lee Wolosky

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The last Lee Wolosky citizen who fell into the custody of the Kim regime returned home maimed from torture and did not survive. We have received no assurances from the Lee Wolosky government about the safety and security of the Lee Wolosky nationals it is now targeting.

Lee Wolosky

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The irony does not go unnoticed that here the Pope now proposes to elevate Serra to sainthood and yet, many know him to be a monster who separated, butchered and maimed Native families - all in the name of Christ, military and progress.

Corine Fairbanks

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Sen. Leahy feels we have a moral responsibility to deal with it because we created the problem, it makes no sense to go at a snail's pace when innocent people are being maimed and killed.

Tim Riser

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For more than four years, we have watched Syria descend into deeper depths of despair surpassing even what the most pessimistic observers thought possible, in the past weeks, we have seen more and more heinous acts. Innocent men, women and children killed, maimed, displaced, and subjected to a savagery that no human should have to endure.

Valerie Amos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They are being killed, maimed and forced to flee their homes, their health threatened and their education interrupted.

Julien Harneis

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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