flesh wound
noun
: an injury involving penetration of the body musculature without damage to bones or internal organs
Examples of flesh wound in a Sentence
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Seven Americans were injured with flesh wounds, the Pentagon said.
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Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
Its causal relationship to the flesh wounds that can result from its use is not understood.
—Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
The seven Americans who sustained flesh wounds were in stable condition, although one was wounded seriously enough to require evacuation to Landstuhl, according to Ryder.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
Its move was a flesh wound for the PBMs.
—David Wainer, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
Da made it through his flesh wound.
—Bono, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
Tis but a flesh wound.
—oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2021
Wasn’t even a flesh wound.
—Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2020
Some seemed major and turned out to be barely a flesh wound.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2023
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Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
Its causal relationship to the flesh wounds that can result from its use is not understood.
—Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
The seven Americans who sustained flesh wounds were in stable condition, although one was wounded seriously enough to require evacuation to Landstuhl, according to Ryder.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
Its move was a flesh wound for the PBMs.
—David Wainer, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
Da made it through his flesh wound.
—Bono, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
Tis but a flesh wound.
—oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2021
Wasn’t even a flesh wound.
—Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2020
Some seemed major and turned out to be barely a flesh wound.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2023
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First Known Use
1655, in the meaning defined above
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flesh wound
noun
: an injury involving penetration of the body musculature without damage to bones or internal organs
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