Example sentences for: abused

How can you use “abused” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clinton craves the affection that his abusive, alcoholic stepfather and abused, fun-loving mother didn't provide him as a child.

  • The funds raised by the campaign support a family of 83 health and human service agencies that provide services like family counseling, care for abused children, scouting and youth programs, job training, disaster relief and much, much more.

  • Would I help her get the story out through Isikoff and Newsweek ? Long a defender of the women I knew Clinton had abused, most particularly Gennifer Flowers, I jumped at the chance to be involved.

  • Revered author and anti-Communist Arthur Koestler repeatedly abused women and committed at least one rape, alleges a new British biography serialized in the Daily Telegraph . The book, by Southampton University Professor David Cesarani, claims that in 1951 Koestler violently assaulted Jill Craigie, the wife of former Labor Party leader Michael Foot.

  • State Department report on Pakistan saying that "the police committed numerous extra-judicial killings and tortured, abused and raped citizens" and that "there is no evidence that any police officers were brought to justice."


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