How to Use hurt in a Sentence

hurt

1 of 2 verb
  • The lack of rain has hurt the corn crop.
  • It hurt me to see her go.
  • My tooth still hurts me.
  • Their lack of interest in her work hurt her deeply.
  • Be careful with that knife or you could hurt yourself.
  • She was badly hurt in a car accident.
  • If we lose this game it will seriously hurt our chances of making the play-offs.
  • You're only hurting yourself by holding a grudge against them.
  • Ouch! You're hurting my arm!
  • When I woke up this morning I hurt all over.
  • Cam came back and then he got hurt again.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The one that will hurt his team the most?
    — Greg Cote october 3, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Does that help you or hurt you in this game?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Trump has cracked the code in how to hurt the press.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Such events hurt both stocks and bonds in the short term.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Betts hurt her arm that night and scored just eight points.
    — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 2 Apr. 2026
  • My bones hurt a little bit more.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But as long as nobody gets hurt.
    — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This one is not hurting him at all.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • If the point is to try to hurt us or try to burn us down?
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • She was not hurt in the attack.
    — Tania Francois, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But the specifics of hurting her?
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
  • And what hurts us much more is not writing.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There's no need to hurt anyone.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Where does danger lurk and who gets hurt?
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
  • My throat has never hurt as much as this round.
    — Lisa Gutierrez updated January 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • No one else involved in the crash was hurt.
    — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • Someone could get hurt, or regress.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • This practice hurts both artists and their fans.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The price point doesn’t hurt either.
    — Jessica Binns, Sourcing Journal, 18 Mar. 2026

hurt

2 of 2 noun
  • She tried to put past hurts behind her.
  • Her sympathy eased the hurt he felt after his dog's death.
  • They felt a great hurt after their bitter divorce.
  • The hurt was just too much for him.
    — Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a time to wave it off and a time to play hurt.
    — Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • What about the hurt already caused to her?
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2026
  • There was no one hurt, no one even injured.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The church has long been a site of healing and hurt.
    — Brittany Luse, NPR, 9 June 2026
  • So, will ground coffee that is past its prime hurt you?
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
  • And a lot of people don't want to deal with that hurt.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That makes it about your need to be absolved, not their hurt.
    — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Tempted to react from a place of past hurt?
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The wrong sports bra could leave you in a world of hurt when things start bouncing.
    — Nikhita Mahtani, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2023
  • So to possibly lose him kind of hurts.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • As a woman of color, this hurt to hear.
    — Meehika Barua, Time, 8 Dec. 2025
  • That was part of my goal to show the hurt behind her actions.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 5 Feb. 2022
  • But also, this was avoidable, so that is its own hurt.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Moving on from a past hurt might be this day's main challenge.
    — Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2022
  • Still, the hurt kept bubbling to the surface.
    — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But the hurt wasn’t a physical sort.
    — Brian Martin, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The jury had deadlocked on the charges in her case, adding to her hurt.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 16 June 2023
  • The hurt of that day still gnaws at him, the details of the killing still fresh in his mind.
    — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Athletes are used to playing hurt.
    — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2026
  • Zuccarello showed up to camp hurt.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Real leaders don’t lead from hurt.
    — Joe Altieri, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • That’s a different kind of hurt.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Either way, some hurt feels inevitable.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • Sometimes, the only way past the hurt is not around the muck, but through it.
    — Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Gary and Cameron both know a thing or two about familial hurt.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Friday never had to witness the hurt to know things had gone south.
    — Bonnie Garmus, Good Housekeeping, 19 May 2022

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