Example sentences for: violent

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

  • Five years and $2 billion after the U.S. invasion, the country is a dictatorship in which "chaos and violent death remain facts of life."

  • A story that had been lurking in the back pages for weeks--the saga of on-the-lam Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan--explodes today into everybody's lead with Ocalan suddenly in Turkish custody following his dramatic capture by Turkish operatives in Kenya, and Kurds across Europe rising up in often violent protest.

  • 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. "

  • History makes it clear that children and teen-agers are no strangers to violent impulses.

  • A well-known figure in the Muslim community (and to German and U.S. intelligence agencies by the late 1990s), Zammar had fought in Afghanistan and relished any opportunity to extol the virtues of violent jihad.


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