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Example sentences for: beatings

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For years I have wanted to confront them about the beatings I took, my mother's drinking, and my dad's complete indifference.
The authorities visit every horror upon the narrators--sexual assault, beatings, isolation, psychological torture--at which point the narrators harden.
Kids like Tommie J., made a ward of the court because of repeated beatings by an alcoholic father; Alice, sent to a group home to get help because of severe behavior disorders; and John H., a recovering alcoholic, rebuilding a relationships with his family so they can live together again.
"People who cannot be subdued with pepper spray alone, but require repeated, severe beatings.
The population suffered two bloody beatings under the Turks when the village was razed to the ground, and again in WWII.