Sentence examples for Be wounding from inspiring English sources

When the press thought that it might be wounding to call me Doris Karloff, I used to pick up the phone and say "Karloff speaking" and grin at the intake of breath at the other end.

And the ideological defeat for the Tories would be wounding in the way Nigel Lawson's 1988 budget, which took the top tax band down to 40%, was for the left.

Such suddenness, in any case, would probably be a business demand; private stragglers like me tend to plan their driftings ahead of time — and, if one can't make it on the day, then the loss of a few pence will hardly be wounding.

If Lauren and Molly had decided to just sit in a room and talk about this problem of girl-on-girl crime with one another, and not take the step to share their deep conviction that this social epidemic can be changed, many girls would still be wounding each other with words, thoughts, and fists.

I could be wounded.

The absence is wounding.

"Ric was wounded, I was wounded.

One man was wounded.

Another person was wounded.

One person was wounded.

Seventeen people were wounded.