bruise

Example Sentences

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A player can sustain a cut or a bruise from many kinds of challenges and collisions, so it would not make much sense.

From BBC

If the watermelons were too tightly packed, she put pieces of cardboard between to keep them from bruising one another.

From Los Angeles Times

Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, is in desperate need of funds to rebuild and rearm its militia and pay other costs stemming from its bruising fight with Israel last year, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has come out fighting after a bruising month that saw him come under attack by stone throwers as he was trying to make a speech.

From BBC

"It leaves us a little bit bruised right this second, but we'll come back," said the frustrated boss.

From BBC