bruise
Example Sentences
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"Bruise me up, I'll eat all of my pride / I know that I was made to divinize."
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
Among the thousands of items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection is the 1980 Nan Goldin photograph titled “Heart-Shaped Bruise, NYC.”
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2022
Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne This is a gritty psychological thriller set in the psychiatric unit of a young offenders institution.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2015
And Saeed Jones' "Prelude to Bruise" won the $5,000 PEN award for poetry.
From US News • May 13, 2015
A very good receipt for it is given thus: Bruise the tops of fresh young red sage leaves with an equal quantity of spinach leaves and squeeze out the juice.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton
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