How to Use injurious in a Sentence

injurious

adjective
  • The decision has had an injurious effect.
  • Please do not use older metal molds for food, as the lead content may be injurious to your health.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
  • These can be extremely injurious to pet health, and even fatal, to dogs.
    — E.a. Anne, Woman's Day, 13 Feb. 2016
  • And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
  • And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Denver Post, 8 June 2017
  • Though dangerous to people, the loud fights are rarely injurious to elk.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 30 Aug. 2020
  • And for the few that are less injurious to the planet, cost and social acceptance may stand in the way.
    — Troy Farah, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Many will rush to make an assessment of his legacy, but this is premature, if not injurious.
    — Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Adding insult to an already injurious day for the spirits of so many Buckeye fans?
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Nor did anyone commit an injurious gaffe.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Nor did anyone commit an injurious gaffe.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But the idea that war may be morally injurious is a charged and threatening one to many people in the military.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • Nuisance and injurious to health.
    — Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • What could have been an injurious collision was thankfully more of a sideswipe.
    — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Political gaffes are not always injurious enough to deal a fatal blow.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Ironically, the view that bad feelings are inherently injurious has found a home among some camps on the left.
    — Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
  • This is making the blockade around the territory even more injurious for the people stuck inside.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The teacher was arrested about an hour later for acting in a manner injurious to a child and assault, police said.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Some of those living with autism engage in destructive or self-injurious behavior; others do not.
    — Alison Singer, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Any small break in the wood, Oz remembers, there could have been a serious, injurious collision.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2017
  • So, a recession would be an interestingly injurious carom — a win, of a perverse sort — from his trade war.
    — George Will, National Review, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Also, stimming may involve self-injurious behaviors that increase the risk of poor health outcomes.
    — Lauren Rowello, Health.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Nonetheless, officers charged her with two misdemeanor counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The woman was arrested and charged with burglary, assault and act in a manner injurious to a child less than 17, troopers said.
    — Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
  • Kilmartin pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud but denied the charges of witness tampering and mailing injurious articles.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • So for the most part, hate-crime laws were enacted because there was an identification that these kinds of crimes were somewhat more injurious to somewhat more unique.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Better to alert the driver and perhaps overstate the case via the sharpness of the horn versus allowing a bad predicament to turn into an injurious car crash.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • There have been some high-profile mascot foibles in Wisconsin sports history as well, some a little more injurious than others.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2023
  • She had, after all, been sat on by a six-hundred-pound camel, an experience that has to be at least uncomfortable and probably injurious.
    — The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
  • That said, these two cases highlight the unfair and injurious difference between standards to which physicians are held and standards to which nurses are held.
    — Michelle Collins, STAT, 14 May 2022

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