Sentence examples for but wounding from inspiring English sources

Spying Plummer, Rick fired once, missing Plummer completely, but wounding an innocent passerby.

Yet they both realize that the play could be regarded as not just offensive but wounding, especially to those directly affected.

The bomb blew up as the embassy's armored sport utility vehicle passed, narrowly missing it but wounding its driver and killing two Lebanese in the car behind it, and a Syrian bystander, security officials said.

The Israeli Army said it was checking reports of the girl's death, but it said a tank fired shells in the area after an explosive was detonated under an armored vehicle, causing damage but wounding no one.

So he passed a year in the Dominican Republic, sweltering, contracting malaria, and pining for Ada — who had fallen into bed with his lifelong best friend, the writer and architect Aldo Buzzi, as Buzzi promptly confessed in a contrite but wounding letter.

A reporter from Britain's Channel 4 news spoke to Libyans who say that, after they found one of the pilots and were about to get him to the rebels, an Osprey landed and more Americans got out, "guns blazing," retrieving the pilot but wounding six civilians, including a child.

David (King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham) survives, but wounded.

Outside the Empire State Building on Friday, the police killed a gunman but wounded others.

In 1986, a white inmate tried to stab him, but wounded a guard instead.

Rupert looked well bred but wounded, like something coming last at Crufts.

The West Indies batsman is calm yet defiant, combative but wounded.