How to Use violence in a Sentence

violence

noun
  • The violence of the storm caused great fear.
  • They need to learn how to settle their arguments without resorting to violence.
  • The risk of violence has become a backdrop for protests and polls in the US.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Reading the data and name list, the violence against the victims is stark.
    — Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2022
  • His death at the age of 67 sent shockwaves around the world and stunned the nation, where gun violence is rare.
    — Time, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The year's first quarter is one of the worst on record in Cincinnati for youth gun violence.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2023
  • His face: the deep lines in his forehead and cheeks had a look of violence about them, more like wounds than like the marks of age.
    — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • With Haiti in the grips of gang violence, the U.S. diaspora lends a hand.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The shooting comes as the city faces a spike in violent crime and gun violence.
    — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The best way to honor the victims of violence is to ensure that hatred does not have the last word.
    — Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
  • The boy was charged in that case with threats of violence and an attempt to commit auto theft, O'Hara said.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
  • He was taken from us too soon due to a senseless act of gun violence!
    — Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The first option is to learn to live with our current level of gun violence.
    — Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • Most of them were in Ukraine and Myanmar, a country that has been shrouded in violence for years.
    — Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • For Kerr, each senseless act of violence in this country hits close to home.
    — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2022
  • But not everyone backs a pause in violence; some in the crowd said defeating Hamas would be the best way to bring the hostages home.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • How has this year of violence changed your daily habits?
    — The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2022
  • There were no signs of struggle, violence or the presence of other people in the area.
    — Camilo Rocha, CNN, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Decades of militia violence have taken grip of the DRC, as state forces struggle to curb rebel groups.
    — Delia Gallagher, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
  • My hope for the girls and women in Afghanistan is more education and a life free of violence.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 12 July 2022
  • In Texas alone, at least three drag shows have been disrupted or canceled in the past month due to threats of violence.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 7 Jan. 2023
  • For years, the elder Trump has voiced his support for violence.
    — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The battered city on the Sea of Azov has become a potent symbol of the violence and displacement that the war has brought.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The attack by the settlers was part of an escalating wave of tit-for-tat violence in the West Bank.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The role of the heated WhatsApp discourse in the violence remains unclear.
    — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • It’s a darker love, protective to the point of violence.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But the source said there was a history of violence between the victim and the father of the child, a girl, before she was born in March.
    — Ed Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • The inclusion of Haiti in the U.N.’s report came after lobbying that what was occurring inside the country was more than just mere gang violence.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2025
  • According to the United Nations, 65% of women in Ecuador are victims of some type of physical violence in their lifetimes, and a woman is killed every 26 hours in the nation.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 19 June 2025

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