How to Use the wounded in a Sentence
the wounded
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When a van arrived to pick up the wounded, it was also shot at.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
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Two of the wounded — the 16-year-old youth and a 19-year-old man — got a ride from someone to a hospital.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
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Medicine is dwindling and hospitals are packed with the wounded, the displaced and the dead.
—Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
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The three people killed died at the scene, and five of the wounded are in a critical condition, the city said.
—Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
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Yet, even in the intensive-care unit, some of the wounded must be laid on the ground or in the hall, because there are not enough beds.
—Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
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In the dark, people scrambled to dig for survivors and directed the wounded, dazed and bloody, away from the site.
—Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
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Khan said some of the wounded were in critical condition and the death toll could rise.
—Anwarullah Khan and Riaz Khan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
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Blood trailing behind the wounded as they’re pulled from the frenzy.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
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Three explosions rang out, followed by screams and cries of the wounded.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
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After half a dozen strikes, the Russians had scattered, some dragging the wounded, and bodies lay still in the field.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
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While under fire, Daniel set tourniquets to prevent the wounded from bleeding to death.
—Amelie Botbol, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
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Three of the wounded were in critical condition and more than a dozen were under 18.
—Time, 3 July 2023
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Doctors in southern Gaza are overwhelmed by the dead and the wounded—and by displaced Palestinians sleeping on the floor.
—Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
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Six of the wounded were in critical condition, the statement said.
—Lawahez Jabari, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023
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That’s where most of the wounded were transported by ambulance.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
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Many left on foot, dragging children and pushing the wounded in wheelchairs on roads strewn with garbage and overflowing with sewage.
—Vincent Ni, NPR, 11 May 2024
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Nineteen policemen, five rescuers and one child were among the wounded, Klymenko said.
—Hanna Arhirova and Jim Heintz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
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Two Al Jazeera reporters were among the wounded when a group of journalists were hit by an artillery strike while reporting in southern Lebanon.
—Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
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Doctors at hospitals in Gaza and a U.N. team that visited a hospital said large numbers of the wounded had been shot.
—Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
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Several members of the group drove to the Antelope Valley Medical Center to seek care for the wounded.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
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Clinics have been overrun by the wounded as well as people seeking shelter from Israeli airstrikes.
—WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
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His neighbor Dwain Easley also helped extricate the wounded from the twisted metal.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
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Three of the wounded were in critical condition Saturday evening, and four were stable, Boyd said.
—Jake Bleiberg and Rebecca Boone, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
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The reenactment is part of a lawsuit by the victims' families and the wounded that accuses the Broward County deputy assigned to the school of failing in his duty to protect the students.
—CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
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Abu Faraj, in the meantime, was directing traffic, keeping a path clear for the eventual evacuation of the wounded.
—Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
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On Thursday, the organization said that since the start of the war, eight colleagues from its ambulance teams have been killed while evacuating the wounded.
—Paul Schemm, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
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Most profoundly by the families of the fallen and the wounded, and by the students who broke glass to climb through windows to escape gunfire, and by the collective spirit of Michigan State, by those who love green and white.
—Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2023
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Residents and rescuers were seen rushing the wounded to hospitals.
—Abdul Sattar The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
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But images of the victims remain seared in his memory, in particular that of the husband, his back burned from the fire, standing over his dead wife outside the building as medics attended to the wounded.
—Alina Lobzina, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
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During a previous blackout, the World Health Organization said ambulance crews had no way of reaching the wounded after a night of strikes.
—Leo Sands, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
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