Example sentences for: violated

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

  • As USAT , the NYT, and the WP note, there was little discussion of Starr's conclusions, the emphasis falling instead on Starr's motives and conduct--the main issues there being whether or not Starr had an antecedent bias against Bill Clinton, had inappropriate connections to the Paula Jones defense team, whether he had unlawfully detained Monica Lewinsky and/or violated her right to an attorney and indeed, whether he had lied about his treatment of her in a press release.

  • It is the prurient prosecutor who imposed his Puritanical moralism on a sexually liberated if somewhat confused woman--a man who held her against her will, denied her the right to call her lawyer, harassed her mother and brother, flagrantly violated her constitutional rights.

  • Federal investigators reported in 1997 that two-thirds of the establishments in New York City’s garment industry violated overtime or minimum wage laws.

  • Actually, there is a fourth question--whether Huang violated federal conflict-of-interest rules by dealing with his old company, the Indonesian-based Lippo conglomerate, while he was a midlevel official at the Commerce Department.

  • The International Court of Justice had asked Virginia to postpone the execution, saying police had violated the Vienna Convention by failing to inform Breard of his right to be helped by Paraguayan consular officials.


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