How to use hurt in a sentence
40 example sentences · verb, adjective, noun
Hurt means to cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. Example: “If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.”
Examples of hurt by meaning
verbTo cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
- This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will be hurting you for a while.
verbTo cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
- The insult hurt.
verbTo damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
- Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.
- It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.
nounAn emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- how to overcome old hurts of the past
nounA bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
- It chanced that one day, while he was fishing, one of the two men received a mortal hurt from a little fish and died.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 40
More sentences with hurt
- I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.From the entry right
- The sacked quarterback was hurting bad. His back ached so bad that he had to lie down.From the entry bad
- My eyes hurt, the cold and dry air makes them burn.From the entry burn
- I think they only have a weird run because their leg hurts.From the entry run
- She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.From the entry slip
- I don't mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.From the entry shovel
- When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.From the entry shame
- The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears.From the entry level
- Did you fall over and hurt your knee? Never mind, I’ll put a bandage on it.From the entry never mind
- My foot is on the mend but it still hurts to walk.From the entry on the mend
- Poking one's eye is a good distraction from a hurting toe.From the entry distraction
- Don't pat yourself on the back so vigorously; you might hurt yourself.From the entry pat on the back
- The racehorse pulled out of the Stakes with a hurt foot.From the entry pull out
- The break-up was very bittersweet; they both hurt to end it, but were glad it was over.From the entry bittersweet
- My novelty calculator works fine but it hurts my hands to press the keys.From the entry novelty
- It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.From the entry sadden
- His words hurt, but I'll file away my emotions until I can get my revenge.From the entry file away
- She babysits the kids, and we mow her lawn. A little backscratching never hurt anybody!From the entry backscratching
- Why am I in trouble for hitting him? It was just a lovetap! See, he's not hurt.From the entry lovetap
- He was badly hurt many times but seems to have nine lives.From the entry nine lives
- The driver was hurt and went to hospital whilst the uninjured passengers went home.From the entry uninjured
- We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.From the entry shrink-wrap
- They need to calm down and bury the hatchet before someone gets hurt.From the entry bury the hatchet
- His indigestion was self-induced. If he didn't eat so much it wouldn't hurt.From the entry self-induced
- I can't get about so much since I hurt my hip.From the entry get about
- That dog will get hurt if he continues to run after cars.From the entry run after
- You hurt her feelings - that was a mean thing to do.From the entry mean
- I bashed my thumb with a hammer, and it hurts like billy-oh.From the entry billy-oh
- Even if one child is hurt that is one too many.From the entry one too many
- Even if only a single child ends up hurt, that would be one too many.From the entry too many
- The new tax, together with inflation, risks hurting the economy even more.From the entry together with
Meaning of hurt
- verb To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- verb To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- verb To be painful.
Questions about hurt in a sentence
- How do you use hurt in a sentence?
- Hurt is used as a verb, adjective and noun. For example: “If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.”
- What is a short sentence with hurt?
- “The insult hurt.”
- What does hurt mean?
- Hurt means to cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hurt (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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