injury - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • suffer: I myself have suffered the same injury to my right arm in 1993.
  • inflict: A well aimed kick from them can smash the skull of a hunting dog or inflict serious injury on a lion.
  • hamstring: Medical investigations Are probably not necessary unless the condition, as may happen with hamstring injuries, fails to resolve.

Adjective modifier

  • spinal: With spinal injury, you can't feel anything from the break down.
  • serious: Muscat, who has just returned from serious injury, has two years left on his current contract.
  • bodily: The accident involved bodily injury causing disability for more than 3 days or death.
  • personal: Hill walking is an activity with a danger of personal injury or death.

Modifies a noun

  • compensation: If you have been injured as a result of someone else's negligence then you are legally entitled to claim personal injury compensation.
  • solicitor: Our specialist personal injury solicitors Our personal injury solicitors have a wide range of specialties among them.
  • claim: The time limits for making personal injury claims are, broadly speaking, much more generous than the time limits for making ET claims.

Noun used with modifier

  • whiplash: To make a no win no fee compensation claim for whiplash injury call 0800 10 757 95.
  • knee: She quit to take up ballet, however a knee injury prematurely ended her career.
  • ankle: Meanwhile, goalkeeper Roger Freestone, who was reported to be nursing an ankle ligament injury, has been named in the Swans squad.
  • brain: These are all typical features of a frontal lobe brain injury.
  • cord: Whilst on holiday in Spain Henry sustained a spinal cord injury in a diving accident.
  • hamstring: George Watson's season started badly with a hamstring injury.

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