How to Use blunt trauma in a Sentence

blunt trauma

noun
  • The body showed blunt trauma, stab wounds and gunshot wounds.
    — Ian Cummings, kansascity, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The cause of death for all nine victims is listed as blunt trauma.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2020
  • The coroner lists the cause of Armani’s death as blunt trauma.
    — Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • She was found in a pool of water below the falls, with blunt trauma from the fall onto the rocks.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2018
  • The cause was blunt trauma injuries to his head due to a fall, the outlets reported.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Eight were due to drug overdoses and three were ruled homicides, two by gunshot and one by blunt trauma.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
  • From the report and the blunt trauma -- that was considered a homicide.
    — NBC News, 15 Aug. 2019
  • His body was a study in blunt trauma, from the fractures in his eye sockets to the ligament tears in his feet.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2022
  • The cause of his death now is listed as pneumonia and complications of blunt trauma to his chest.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
  • It’s contracted when the bacteria enters a break in the skin, but can also come from blunt trauma.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The autopsy ruled the death was accidental, caused by blunt trauma.
    — Staff and Wire Reports, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • But injuries can include broken bones, sprains, abrasions, friction burns and blunt trauma.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The medical examiner says the doctor died of blunt trauma to the head.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Some people can get necrotizing fasciitis after an injury that does not break the skin (blunt trauma).
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Luca’s death was the result blunt trauma to his brain, according to an autopsy.
    — Jessica De Leon, miamiherald, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The agency requests that the Toad Busters use blunt trauma for brain destruction.
    — Brett Israel, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2010
  • Rivera said most are blunt traumas and up to 15% are penetrating traumas such as gunshot wounds or stab wounds.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Another man died of blunt trauma to the head, the cause of which is still under investigation.
    — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2021
  • According to the state pathologist, the likely cause of death was blunt trauma to her head and neck, per the newspaper.
    — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
  • Police said Nwogo suffered blunt trauma to the back of his head and a single gunshot wound to the middle of his back.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Guzman described the blunt trauma on Francisco’s jaw but that the exact cause of death was unknown.
    — Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Another man was found early Sunday dead of apparent blunt trauma to the head.
    — Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 3 May 2021
  • According to court records, Kylen died of blunt trauma injuries to the head and abdomen after being punched and kicked.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Her official cause of death was blunt trauma, indicating some type of forceful impact.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • The city’s medical examiner attributed his death to blunt trauma to the head.
    — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • An autopsy found Torres died of massive blunt trauma to the head, but the manner of death was uncertain.
    — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2024
  • She was dragged back into the plane but later pronounced dead from what medical examiners called blunt trauma to her head, neck and torso.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • It was determined Campbell died from multiple-blunt trauma.
    — Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The cause of death for all nine victims was certified as blunt trauma, and the manner of death was certified as accident, the coroner said.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Near the tan-colored complex’s dumpsters, deputies found the body of a Latina who had died from blunt trauma and stab wounds, Westphal said.
    — Matthew Ormseth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2021

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