sore

Example Sentences

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Drake Maye may be sore from a Super Bowl loss, but spring practice will be here before he knows it.

From The Wall Street Journal

In Friday’s “encouraging inflation report,” household utility costs were a “sore spot,” according to Heather Long, chief economist for Navy Federal Credit Union.

From MarketWatch

So you go to the doctor, she takes it out real quick, and pretty soon you forget how it felt to have a sore, stuffed-up, stretched-out nose.

From Literature

There was an unspoken rule in the Masters household: The deaths of his mother and sister were not to be talked about, because the subject opened sores that hurt for days.

From Literature

She was simply tired, sore and disoriented from the unfamiliar Olympic team competition format.

From Los Angeles Times