ABUSE in a Sentence
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114 example sentences for ABUSE, such as:
1. The legal system is open to abuse.
2. Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
3. Anyway, take note, I did not openly abuse it.
4. Merry senseless words of abuse flowed freely.
5. It's natural to feel helpless against such abuse.
2. Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
3. Anyway, take note, I did not openly abuse it.
4. Merry senseless words of abuse flowed freely.
5. It's natural to feel helpless against such abuse.
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Meanings and Examples of ABUSE
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abuse
n. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
v. use wrongly or improperly or excessively
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1 I, for instance, genuinely despised my official work and did not openly abuse it simply because I was in it myself and got a salary for it.
2 Anyway, take note, I did not openly abuse it.
3 Our romantic would rather go out of his mind--a thing, however, which very rarely happens--than take to open abuse, unless he had some other career in view; and he is never kicked out.
4 They have become utterly vile, and nothing on earth is viler, more loathsome, and more insulting than their abuse.
5 The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse.
6 Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down.
7 After hearing the details of Anatole's marriage from Pierre, and giving vent to her anger against Anatole in words of abuse, Marya Dmitrievna told Pierre why she had sent for him.
8 From all sides, like the roar of the sea, were heard the rattle of wheels, the tramp of feet, and incessant shouts of anger and abuse.
9 Merry senseless words of abuse flowed freely.
10 Her weapons of scorn, coldness and abuse blunted in her hands, for nothing she could say would shame him.
11 The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other, hissing and chuckling and letting out a flood of abuse.
12 Whereupon Victor administered a rebuke in the form of a volley of abuse, which, owing to its rapidity and incoherence, was all but incomprehensible to Edna.
13 It is rather joy than labor to the spirit, to lift up the voice in praise; but sadly do these boys abuse their gifts.
14 There was no term of abuse known to the Huron vocabulary that the disappointed women did not lavishly expend on the successful stranger.
15 The mode here adopted to disgust the slave with freedom, by allowing him to see only the abuse of it, is carried out in other things.
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 She snarled abuse at anyone who happened to walk past.
2 Much of the crime in this area is related to drug abuse.
3 Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
4 Airport officials received a stream of verbal abuse from angry passengers whose flights had been delayed.
5 Drug abuse poses a major threat to the fabric of our society.
6 This case has brought the problem of drug abuse in schools into sharp focus.
7 Try not to abuse the privilege of being allowed more freedom.
8 The legal system is open to abuse.
9 What she did was an abuse of her position as manager.
10 The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
11 It's natural to feel helpless against such abuse.
12 Murphy gradually slid into a pattern of drug abuse.
13 He heaped abuse on Waite and made venomous personal attacks.
14 John received constant physical and psychological abuse from his father.
15 The notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical.