VIOLENCE in a Sentence

Learn VIOLENCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
268 example sentences for VIOLENCE, such as:
1. It was an absolutely senseless act of violence.
2. There is too much sex and violence on TV these days.
3. Young men are more likely to fall victim to violence.
4. There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
5. Violence in the last analysis produces more violence.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of VIOLENCE
violence
 n.  an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
 n.  a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Classic Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
1  Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Scarlett, seeing him for the first time in more than two years, was frightened by the violence of her feelings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  Rhett turned the horse's slow feet westward from Peachtree and the wobbling wagon jounced into the rutty lane with a violence that wrenched an abruptly stifled moan from Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  The man crashed backwards to the floor, sprawling into the dining room with a violence that shook the furniture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  Expecting violence, this gentle and loverlike gesture startled her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  He was a man and Tony was a man and this situation of violence was men's business in which a woman had no part.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  No, she didn't want her children raised in this welter of hate and uncertainty, of bitterness and violence lurking just below the surface, of poverty and grinding hardships and insecurity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  And they were caring about life again, caring with the same urgency and the same violence that animated them before the war had cut their lives in two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  Melanie did not even apologize for her crossness but went back to her sewing with small violence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  Rhett said they would not have come at all, except for fear of violence at the hands of Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  Melanie paused for breath and Scarlett stared at her, startled out of her own anger by the quivering note of violence in Melanie's voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
13  Then suddenly he wrenched himself from her, confusing her by his violence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
14  His voice still held a remnant of its wonted cool drawl but beneath the words she could feel violence fighting its way to the surface, violence as cruel as the crack of a whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
15  He accused himself of deeds she did not understand; he mumbled the name of Belle Watling and then he shook her with his violence as he cried: "I've killed Scarlett, I've killed her."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  It was an absolutely senseless act of violence.
2  It was an act of violence that she found alien and shocking.
3  It seems that the attack was a gratuitous/random/mindless act of violence.
4  The government has expressed "deep dismay" at police violence against protesters.
5  The film is a reflection of the violence that pervades American culture.
6  The TV station has received a barrage of complaints about the amount of violence in the series.
7  Violence in the last analysis produces more violence.
8  Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.
9  There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
10  Not all of the violence in Miami was spillover from the trial.
11  Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence.
12  There is too much sex and violence on TV these days.
13  Watching violence on TV makes some children more aggressive.
14  Young men are more likely to fall victim to violence.
15  This evidence supports the view that there is too much violence on television.