MAIM in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for MAIM, such as:

1. Tom was seriously maimed in the war.
2. And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed.
3. Stephen drew back his maimed and quivering right arm and held out his left hand.
4. The hospital was crowded, we believe the railroad accident to maim lots of people.
5. He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAIM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
maim
 v.  wound seriously; cause permanent loss of function of limb or part of body
Classic Sentence:
1  And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
2  His own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
3  There were so many dead, so many wounded and maimed for life, so many widowed, so many orphaned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  All the men of that description, barring the badly maimed ones, have already got something to do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  It came to pass, that in the ambergris affair Stubb's after-oarsman chanced so to sprain his hand, as for a time to become quite maimed; and, temporarily, Pip was put into his place.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
6  Indeed, many a maimed and feeble soldier was compelled to drag his exhausted limbs in the rear of the columns, for the want of the necessary means of conveyance in that wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
7  And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  Stephen drew back his maimed and quivering right arm and held out his left hand.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  At his first violent sin he had felt a wave of vitality pass out of him and had feared to find his body or his soul maimed by the excess.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  Higg, the son of Snell, at length replied, "I am but a maimed man, but that I can at all stir or move was owing to her charitable assistance."
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
12  The hunter, who had already abandoned his intention of maiming the runner, mused a moment, and then made a gesture, which instantly brought his two red companions to his side.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
13  He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  The hospital was crowded, we believe the railroad accident to maim lots of people.
2  But a day after Spain suffered its deadliest rail disaster in decades — which killed 80 people and maimed scores of others — one question surpassed all others: Why was the train moving so fast?
3  Tom was seriously maimed in the war.