Example sentences for: bullying

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

  • In an editorial Saturday, the Globe and Mail said, "At a time when the international scene offers us too many horrific images of the intolerance and bullying that can govern relations between regions and ethnic groups, Canada is proving once again that intelligence and innovation, when applied with good will, can almost always permit the accommodation of difference."

  • And in a federal lawsuit, the agency's leadership argues that a merger would jeopardize its educational programs and minority hiring efforts, and that its imposition amounts to bureaucratic bullying by state and federal officials.

  • Critics say expansion could be another Yalta (the 1945 meeting at which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on spheres of influence in postwar Europe)--imposing a line between East and West, and leaving nonmembers subject to Russian bullying.

  • Cowboy, detective, gangster, thriller, western —all refer to film categories, though gangster (or, rather, gangsterism ) can be many kinds of coercive behavior, even schoolyard bullying.

  • A sidebar stresses the dangers of bullying, which causes 8 percent of school kids to miss "a day of class monthly" and 43 percent to fear using school bathrooms.


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