Example sentences for: violent

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

  • Brandon could not hire a private attorney because she has to stay home to tend her son, who is often violent and who requires constant supervision. "

  • We also know that Nixon sincerely believed that warrantless break-ins of the sort that Felt and Miller (and, under different circumstances, Nixon himself) had authorized were a necessary line of defense against radicals and troublemakers (many of whom did indeed prove to be violent).

  • At today's press conference, Bennett cited as examples of the "progress on key social indicators" during the 1990s the drop in violent crime in New York City and the drastically reduced welfare rolls in Wisconsin and Michigan.

  • During the 1930s, Palestinian responses turned violent . In 1934 Jerusalem's mufti, the spiritual leader of the city's Muslims, decreed that believers were duty bound to murder other Muslims who sold land to Jews.

  • Though history had recorded public concern over bands of violent teen-agers ever since the beginning of the republic, the fear of "gangs" (a term coined in the 1930s) caught the nation's fancy.


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