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Example sentences for: violent

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

"Knowledge is a violent, bright, hot thing, but you would never know that watching Moyers," says Laurence Jarvik, author of PBS: Behind the Screen and a Moyers critic.
It said, "The leadership is passing to young people educated by Western culture, cognizant of modern technology; people relatively free, one hopes, of the burden of the region's violent history.
From this brilliant overture, it's obvious that the writer-director, David O. Russell, wants to break down your defenses against cinema's violent imagery: He's juxtaposing farce and atrocity in ways that few American directors have dared.
Having a lawyer can often be the difference between a woman staying in a violent relationship and being able to break out of one, Waldron said.
Tragedy doesn't stir violent urges but rather inhibits them.