How to Use violent in a Sentence

violent

adjective

• The city has experienced an increase in violent crime in the past year.
• She suffered a violent death in a car accident.
• The patient suddenly became violent and had to be restrained.
• The final scene was extremely violent.
• The peaceful protest suddenly turned violent.
• They witnessed a violent struggle between police and protesters.
• He's not a particularly violent person.
• By the end of the year, though, violent crime had picked back up.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• All but two of the remains showed signs of violent deaths.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
• Or that he would be forced to fight for them in the face of violent threats and a hard shove outside the Capitol.
  — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
• This was not his first attempt to plan a violent event.
  — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
• The drones are now a lot more powerful and way more violent.
  — Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2023
• And while that might seem weird enough, the tilt itself may be evidence of the Milky Way’s violent past.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• Such attacks have helped make health care one of the nation’s most violent fields.
  — Rebecca Boone, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Such attacks have helped make health care one of the nation's most violent fields.
  — Time, 7 Aug. 2023
• Can Noemí figure out the violent secrets behind the walls of High Place?
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2023
• The set-up for the film is simple: A woman travels to a small town with the brother of her ex-boyfriend who was killed there in a violent tragedy.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2024
• Although most of the charges against Woody’s client were cleared, her record still contains an arrest for a violent felony.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2022
• That story is one that paints him as a survivor of a violent partner.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 9 Mar. 2023
• Back in 1970, Lolita and a number of other whales were part of a violent capture from a pod in the Puget Sound near Seattle.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• And despite what folks' opinions or my opinion might be about whether this was violent or not [that] doesn't control [the law].
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Total violent crime is up 38%, and total crime is up 31%.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023
• The shooting is the latest in a recent string of violent incidents on the L.A. Metro system.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
• What turned up the dial on violent fantasies among this sorry group?
  — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
• Due to the nature of the charges, which are non-violent, and Trump being a first-time offender, the former president was not placed in jail.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Haley said those who were violent and caused damage should be charged but not those who didn’t and were on the Capitol grounds to support Trump.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
• The children said their parents rarely fought and were never violent.
  — Gayane Keshishyan Mendez, CBS News, 17 May 2024
• Swarm follows Dre, a stan of the mega pop star Ni’Jah, on a cross-country journey that turns violent and disturbing.
  — Vulture, 11 Mar. 2023
• Israeli settlers launched a series of violent attacks on Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank overnight, burning homes and clashing with Israeli troops.
  — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
• That was also something that was unique, and maybe uniquely dangerous about Bob’s group, is that a lot of the people who joined and then became violent bank robbers and murderers had not been criminals before.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024