Sentence examples for wound ourselves from inspiring English sources

We've got to control nature, but if we control it too much we only wound ourselves.

Ms. Shin added: "We take for granted little things like being able to clean a wound ourselves, get antibiotic ointment and put a Band-Aid on it, but a lot of these people can't do that.

Some of America's dissatisfaction likely boils down to poor "sleep hygiene" — basic bad habits like not keeping a regular bedtime; overconsumption of alcohol or coffee; or winding ourselves up with work or television before bed.

"When you get a 10-point lead in a game like this, that's nothing," Seton Hall Coach Louis Orr said".We were playing well and had the momentum, but we wound up beating ourselves.

When we first learned that our 18-year-old daughter was accepted at Johns Hopkins University for the fall of 2009, my wife and I couldn't contain ourselves and wound up jumping up and down on the living room carpet and yelling.

Nik had a habit of leaving the studio before the group was finished with the project, so we wound up mixing things ourselves, and again, it gave us more time in the studio.

We were just defending ourselves, but we wound up going to the SHU anyway.

Bringing a fresh new industry like wind energy would get us to lift ourselves up socially.

In effect, we wind up satirizing ourselves.

And yet, any thoughts of gentle strolls soon receded as we turned off the M6 and, within 20 minutes, found ourselves winding down the A593 through a beautiful but rugged landscape.

We took the long, scenic but excruciatingly slow train ride along the Hudson River and Lake Champlain -- an Amtrak version of the Polar Express -- rented a car in Montreal and soon found ourselves winding through the lovely, rounded Laurentians.