How to Use injurious in a Sentence

injurious

adjective
  • The decision has had an injurious effect.
  • And for the few that are less injurious to the planet, cost and social acceptance may stand in the way.
    — Troy Farah, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Please do not use older metal molds for food, as the lead content may be injurious to your health.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Though dangerous to people, the loud fights are rarely injurious to elk.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 30 Aug. 2020
  • And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
  • And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Denver Post, 8 June 2017
  • And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017
  • But the idea that war may be morally injurious is a charged and threatening one to many people in the military.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • These can be extremely injurious to pet health, and even fatal, to dogs.
    — E.a. Anne, Woman's Day, 13 Feb. 2016
  • Adding insult to an already injurious day for the spirits of so many Buckeye fans?
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The summer food of the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown creeper, for example, includes the eggs, larvae, and adults of a very large number of insect species injurious to trees.
    — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
  • In the case of AI, there might be a rather unclear path that ties a particular person or persons to the AI that performed some injurious action.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Better to alert the driver and perhaps overstate the case via the sharpness of the horn versus allowing a bad predicament to turn into an injurious car crash.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The gossiper: Is there anyone more injurious to a cohesive workforce than the gossiper?
    — Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 17 May 2018
  • This is making the blockade around the territory even more injurious for the people stuck inside.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Any small break in the wood, Oz remembers, there could have been a serious, injurious collision.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2017
  • He and his staff were required, among many other things, to create a series of documents and exhibits that showed that the chosen design and home location was going to be the least injurious to the site.
    — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
  • And we are required by the Tennessee State Constitution to object to policies injurious to the well-being of our constituents.
    — Justin J. Pearson, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • On the flip side of that coin, though, it’s been Black women in the entertainment business who’ve said the most injurious things to her about queerness, with no regard for her sexuality.
    — Variety, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • On the flip side of that coin, though, it’s been Black women in the entertainment business who’ve said the most injurious things to her about queerness, with no regard for her sexuality.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 1 June 2022
  • So for the most part, hate-crime laws were enacted because there was an identification that these kinds of crimes were somewhat more injurious to somewhat more unique.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Thank you for helping me better understand the injurious effects seeing that word in print can produce.
    — Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 29 Mar. 2018
  • What could have been an injurious collision was thankfully more of a sideswipe.
    — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Perez is now charged with robbery, assault, kidnapping, menacing and acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 30 July 2021
  • In her view, the care center failed to demonstrate that the project would not diminish property values or be injurious to the use and enjoyment of nearby properties.
    — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • With skin cancer the most common cancer in the United States, the proliferation of these recipes is misleading at best and harmful, even injurious, at worst.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 31 May 2019
  • On Friday, Piers Morgan points out the hypocrisy of vegans who drink almond milk, because the process of growing almonds is injurious to the bee population.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
  • Sadeekah Abdul Salaam, 32, is charged with abandonment of a child, acting in a manner injurious to a child, and reckless endangerment.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The charges include recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury, conspiracy to commit an act injurious to the public and violating the social host ordinance.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • They were each charged with at least one felony, including recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury, conspiracy to commit an act injurious to the public, and violating the social host ordinance, prosecutors said.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025

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