Example sentences for: violent

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

  • Yes--men are shorter-lived, more cerebrally lopsided, more violent, better at some spatial abilities, worse at verbal abilities, more competitive but more forgiving of their competitors, more sexually jealous, more socially obtuse, and more promiscuous (at least, they'd like to be).

  • On any given day in America, there are three convicted adult criminals out on probation or parole for every one in prison--and many of these are indistinguishable (in terms of their violent and repeat criminal histories) from those who remain in prison.

  • One could point out, in arguing against the safety-valve theory, that as America has grown more profane in the past 30 years, it has also grown more violent, not less.

  • And compare Caravaggio’s mastery of chiaroscuro (the play of light and dark) in the service of realism in his violent Abraham and Isaac (1590) with the more contemplative style of Rembrandt in the famous Old Rabbi (1658) and other portraits.

  • 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.


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