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.
• Reading the data and name list, the violence against the victims is stark.
  — Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Decades of militia violence have taken grip of the DRC, as state forces struggle to curb rebel groups.
  — Delia Gallagher, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• And if the violence is quite frequent and exquisitely graphic?
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
• The story might have even ended there, one of a growing number of artists who have died due to gun violence.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
• He's called for protests and that's raising concerns about violence.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• All the candidates have pledged to rein in the escalation of violence.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 26 July 2023
• The election was also marred by violence in places, although not yet on the scale of previous ones.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• On the three-year anniversary of the tragedy, Jason and Brittany opened up on Instagram about the act of violence and honored the lives that were lost.
  — Meg Walters, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
• This neighborhood in particular has been known for high rates of violence and of crime, and there hasn't been a lot of change in that over decades.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2024
• The larger issue though is there were no consequences for the violence.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 14 Sep. 2024
• The remote setting has also seen its share of violence.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
• Police said the man was killed by homicidal violence but did not release his cause of death.
  — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
• But violence aside, the election was already hardly free or fair.
  — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey tied the shooting and other recent violence at encampments to the drug fentanyl.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
• Those held at the Brooklyn jail have long complained about rampant violence, dreadful conditions, severe staffing shortages and the widespread smuggling of drugs and other contraband, some of it facilitated by employees.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024