Example sentences for: violently

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

  • Over time, however, as the power of authoritative institutions waned--church, state, even family--I was increasingly struck by the reality that while many have handled their "moral freedom" responsibly, many others have used lack of external constraints to exploit and prey on others--personally, financially, sexually, violently, etc.

  • In return, the Turks violently put down every insurrection, including the massacre on Chios, when 22,000 people were slaughtered.

  • In Czechoslovakia and Poland, some of those who had suffered under Nazi rule turned violently against their oppressors--or their oppressors' countrymen--and hundreds, even thousands, may have been killed.

  • Shatz also violently dissents from the scholarly consensus on civilian German attitudes toward Jews during World War II.

  • It is a process that will be violently opposed by Islamist terrorist organizations, both inside Muslim countries and in attacks on the United States and other Western nations.


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