Sentence examples for had concussed from inspiring English sources

The war, McCann writes, had "concussed the world".

He also has a regrettable tendency towards sonorous potted history: "The Great War had concussed the world … Europe was a crucible of bones".

The Great War has concussed the world.

For the Supreme Court, meanwhile — well, the blows to our heads offered there have concussed us all, perhaps for good.

He had intercepted a sixteen-ounce bottle of Budweiser coming toward my head at a velocity that would have concussed me.

"What the numbers are, what proportion of people who play rugby, how often you may have to get concussed, how long after you may develop problems, these are questions we can't answer.

The problem was that both had been concussed too often, with too little time to recover, and now their brains were susceptible to more damage.

Players who had been concussed would be light-heartedly described as having been "dinged up", but little thought was given to the long-term repercussions of their injuries.

The subjects were around the age of 49 – half of them former elite players – and had been concussed several times on the field.

This was at least the second time in less than a year that he had been concussed; last September, a Washington Redskins defender threw himself helmet first into Lacy, a head-to-head collision captured, in all its grim HD glory, on video.

The sport should also be self-confident enough to be able to spot when a player has been concussed and get him or her off the pitch.