How to Use flesh wound in a Sentence

flesh wound

noun

• The 2025 Buffs have flesh wounds.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
• Dollar Tree shares are off by about 7% — a mere flesh wound given the recent rally and its +48% ytd performance.
  — Jay Woods, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
• In the grand scheme of things, in the 2026 football season that remains very much viable for the Hoosiers, this loss is barely a flesh wound.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
• Police said several people sustained superficial flesh wounds.
  — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
• On Friday, the Texas Department of Agriculture announced the debut of TDA Swormlure, a synthetic bait designed to attract the flies with a scent that mimics open flesh wounds, which are critical to the lifecycle of the fly, called the New World Screwworm.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025