Example sentences for: bullying

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

  • In the New Republic , James Wood calls Toni Morrison's Paradise trite and sentimental: "It forces magic and pure rhapsodies on its characters like a demented anesthetist bullying patients with laughing gas."

  • The story he tells is really about performing a kind of jujitsu with his own personality, channeling his dubious personal qualities--his bullying, his egomania, and his impatient ambition--toward the noble (and perhaps Nobel) end of peace in the Balkans.

  • Homer's father (Chris Cooper) is shown bullying the boy into abandoning his education and going into the mines, a perspective less tragically shortsighted than plain moronic, given the fact that miners are dying all around him either from cancer or cave-ins.

  • A Harold Ickes profile says the ex-Clinton staffer is cruel, bullying, and smart.

  • The War Powers Resolution has been a monument to congressional fecklessness and presidential bullying.


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