How to Use violence in a Sentence

violence

noun
Definition of violencenext
Synonyms for violencenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • With Haiti in the grips of gang violence, the U.S. diaspora lends a hand.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 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
  • The role of the heated WhatsApp discourse in the violence remains unclear.
    — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And if the violence is quite frequent and exquisitely graphic?
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • All the candidates have pledged to rein in the escalation of violence.
    — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 26 July 2023
  • 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 remote setting has also seen its share of violence.
    — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But violence aside, the election was already hardly free or fair.
    — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The scene was captured on amateur video and shown throughout the world, and the killing launched protests against police violence against Black people in cities across the country.
    — Andi Babineau, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Looking for moments of tenderness and violence is, for me, central to my job as an artist.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The group, which has around 3,000 members, puts up posters promoting peace and a helpline for reporting violence.
    — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • In the context of cartel violence, that energy puts young people in a lot of danger.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But fears of widespread violence on the day of the election did not materialize.
    — Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The edges of his paintings imprison and concentrate the violence, sorrow and grotesquerie.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The violence by militants in Yemen has been met with an aggressive response by the United States.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
  • There have been reports from Western countries around the world of an increase in harassment and violence against Jews.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Tamara is searching for her missing son in a small town consumed by violence.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
  • At that time, Smith condemned the violence but provided no details of the shooting itself.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Her work on people displaced by jihadi violence earned her a Varenne award last year.
    — Sam Mednick, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
  • And while the men killed by Rittenhouse were white, the shootings occurred at a protest over police violence against Black Americans.
    — The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Much like the soon-to-be-late Henry Kissinger, The Monster seems adept at mixing diplomacy with acts of unspeakable violence.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The shooting is the latest among nine dozen mass shootings in Alabama since 2013, according to one group that tracks gun violence.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • This week, there was another startling act of gun violence.
    — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Reed indicated that the man from the riverboat was attacked and that those who committed violence against him would face the justice system.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023

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