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Example sentences for: abuse

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A few days ago, he reported a rumor that Sidney Blumenthal, a former journalist who is now a Clinton official, was once accused in court filings of "spousal abuse."
It also would provide perverse incentives to opposing litigants to drag out legal proceedings with the expectation that an alien might have to temporarily depart from the country, or engage in other forms of procedural abuse.
The Voice was the first publication to give a forum to pro-sex feminists, the first so far as I know to blow the whistle on the "ritual sex abuse" day-care trials.
One possible cause of this acceleration may be the synergistic neurotoxic properties of HIV proteins and the drugs of abuse.
Cookies are merely special messages a Web site's computer sends to your computer when you drop by to visit--for example, "Have a nice day," or, "End child abuse now," or, "Wipe out this person's hard drive on his next birthday," or, "Psst ...