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Example sentences for: abused

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

Stephen has abused drugs.
When a Federal judge ruled last Friday evening that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power, many reports noted that the company's stock price fell in "after-hours trading."
Defenders of the system argued that it's cheap (saves the taxpayers money), gives Social Security recipients an easy way to access their own records, has never been abused, and is safer than the mail.
And why is it, the critics ask, that Quindlen's protagonist, the abused wife of a Brooklyn cop, sounds so much like a sophisticated Manhattan journalist?
This sort of ruling "absolutely increases abused women's level of risk" by seemingly encouraging their abusers, Ms.