Example sentences for: aggression

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

  • Some hurdles remain however, says the Times : the U.S. would like at least a limited exemption for anti-personnel mines used in conjunction with anti-tank mines, and also wants an escape clause allowing exemptions for countries who are the victims of aggression.

  • In her opening remarks, Hillary Clinton invoked prayer and religion and repeatedly charged that the "culture of violence" in television, movies, music, video games, and the Internet "is having a profound effect on our children" and "causes more aggression and anti-social behavior."

  • The anthropologist Ashley Montagu, whose Anatomy of Swearing , published in 1967, is the definitive modern take on the subject, saw profanity as a safety valve rather than a stimulant, a verbal substitute for physical aggression.

  • However, one study [ 24 ] reported a potentially relevant correlation between symptoms of conduct disorder (but not depression) during adolescence and obesity in early adulthood, attributed to common mechanisms underlying "impulsive aggression" and dysregulation of body weight.

  • Not all of verbal aggression is concerned with four-letter words; much of it (and many of the four-letter words) involves insults, racist and other prejudicial language, and other parts of the nether reaches of language formerly represented largely by asterisks.


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