8 sentences with 'wounded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wounded and other words derived from it.
• « Everyone knew that Edsel was wounded. "His soul bled," Walter Reuther recalled. "He was a decent man, and he cared a lot. I felt sorry for him." »
• « Whitman killed twelve students and wounded thirty; not only that, but shortly before he had murdered his mother and stabbed his wife. »
• « A Spanish knight, Loyola was wounded in battle. During his recovery, Loyola read books on the life of Christ and the saints, which inspired him to renounce his possessions and make a pilgrimage through Spain and Italy. »
• « In contrast to regular battles, where most of the soldiers lost could be considered captured by the enemy or wounded but not killed, at least 400,000 men lost their lives in the Russian campaign. After this colossal defeat, the anti-French coalition of Austria, Prussia, Britain and Russia was reformed. »
• « The most striking death toll of the war was the Battle of the Somme, a disastrous British offensive in 1916 in which 60,000 soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day alone - there were more British soldiers killed and wounded in the first three days of the Battle of the Somme than Americans killed in World War I, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. »
• « Ultimately, the Battle of the Somme produced 420,000 British casualties (i.e. killed, missing or wounded to the point of being unable to fight), 200,000 French casualties and 650,000 German casualties. A British poet later remarked that "the war had won" the battle, not the countries or the people. »
• « For Russia and France, of the twenty million men mobilised during the war, more than 76% were casualties (killed, wounded or missing). An entire generation of young men was almost wiped out, with lasting demographic consequences for both countries. »
• « Louis Philippe, heir of Portugal, was technically king of his country for twenty minutes. He was mortally wounded on 1 February 1908, just as his father was being assassinated in the streets of Lisbon. »