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How to use violence in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Violence means extreme force. Example: “The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.”

Examples of violence by meaning

nounExtreme force.

  • The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.
  • This is for use when hauling an unbraked or partially braked train, and prevents the unbraked stock from running into the locomotive or braked portion of the train with violence.1958 September, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 603

nounPhysical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.

  • We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.
  • There is nothing unique or magical about the Middle East; it shares xenophobias and violences with all the rest of the world!2003, Diana Abu-Jaber, Arabian Jazz, page 329
  • Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1

nounWidespread fighting.

  • Violence between the government and the rebels continues.
  • But by the early 2000s, we were seeing fewer games like DOOM that dealt in the fantasia of ultraviolence and more games that tried to replicate the everyday violence of military encounters.2021 October 29, Trevor Strunk, “How To Get Away With Making An Ultraviolent Video Game”, in Defector

nounA perceived injustice, especially in the context of social justice.

  • The translation does violence to the original novel.

verbTo subject to violence.

  • And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 24
  • He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.2012, Megan Sweeney, The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 46

More sentences with violence

  • We do not anticipate there will be US boots on the ground to help quell the violence.From the entry boot
  • The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.From the entry sit
  • We were discussing solutions to the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias.From the entry sectarian
  • In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.From the entry marginal
  • Anyone with an unsubverted or cleansed frame of reference likely couldn't bear seeing such mistreatment and violence.From the entry frame of reference
  • I'd love to go to Israel, but I'll have to wait until the violence cools down.From the entry cool down
  • Violence is not the answer to disagreements.From the entry answer
  • It was a territory without law, marked by violence.From the entry law
  • The violence of the waves was spent.From the entry spend
  • Our city is plagued by random acts of violence.From the entry random
  • As everyone knew, he was capable of violence when roused.From the entry capable
  • Diplomacy can only begin when the violence quietens down.From the entry quieten down
  • She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.From the entry repugnance
  • The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.From the entry senseless
  • On rare occasions French-Canadian separatists have resorted to violence.From the entry separatist
  • Street drug sales are a huge problem for law enforcement since they are a magnet for gun violence and drug users.From the entry street drug
  • The sheer graphicness of the violence is shocking.From the entry graphicness
  • Diplomacy can only begin when the violence quiets down.From the entry quiet down
  • There's a lot of violence and bad language in this programme. Are you sure it's going to be airable?From the entry airable
  • How can ethnopolitical violence be hindered or mitigated?From the entry ethnopolitical
  • Modern television is saturated with violence.From the entry saturate
  • Baniyas was one of the towns worst hit by the violence.2025 March 9, Malek Fouda, “More than 1,000 killed in Syria, most of them civilians, in sectarian violence”, in Euronews. From the entry strewn
  • America in the fifties also had its share of reactionary political violence.2025 August 5, Danny Goldberg, “A Guest Post By Danny Goldberg: Culture, Empathy And Resistance”, in DownWithTyranny, archived from the…. From the entry fifties
  • These terms encapsulate how society often exaggerates male power and aggression while minimizing female agency and violence.2025, CS Activist, Men, Marx, and Misunderstanding: A Marxist Analysis of the Men's Rights Movement in India and Beyond. From the entry hypoagency
  • The Stranger, Seattle’s alt-weekly blog, even posted a condemnation of political violence.2024 July 13, Jason Rantz, “Rantz: After failed Donald Trump assassination attempt, will you stop claiming he’s Hitler?”, in KTTH. From the entry alt-weekly
  • As a result, Amirull has renounced his radical beliefs in armed jihad and the use of violence.2023 May 3, “Update on Terrorism-Related Case Under Internal Security Act”, in Internal Security Department (Singapore), archived from the…. From the entry jihad
  • Their allegation of violence can indeed be supported by this text.2023 [1950], Morganna Lambeth, quoting Martin Heidegger, “Heidegger's Later Retraction of the Kant Book”, in Heidegger's Interpretation of…. From the entry philosophicohistorical
  • It is overpriced, eight dollars without any description except "hot dog." I choose violence.2023, Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, unnumbered pages. From the entry I choose violence
  • “Do you believe the violence on January 6 was justified morally?” she asked.2022 July 8, Barton Gellman, quoting Michael Flynn, “What Happened to Michael Flynn?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry take the fifth
  • Language is crucial because it is the best weapon against violence.2021 October 1, A Falun Dafa practitioner in France, “Using Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to Guide My Young Students”, in Minghui. From the entry crucial

Meaning of violence

  1. noun Extreme force.
  2. noun Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.
  3. noun Widespread fighting.

Full definition of violence

Questions about violence in a sentence

How do you use violence in a sentence?
Violence is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.”
What is a short sentence with violence?
“Modern television is saturated with violence.”
What does violence mean?
Violence means extreme force.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: violence (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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