How to Use abuse in a Sentence

abuse

1 of 2 noun

• The prisoner hurled abuse at the judge.
• She was subjected to every term of abuse her boss could think of.
• He subjected his wife to physical and emotional abuse.
• To be sure, there have been instances of FBI abuse of the system.
  — The Editors, National Review, 12 Apr. 2024
• Both were later charged with six felony child abuse charges.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• The harshest abuse came in moments of capture, rather than in the basement.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• The abuse was very public and everyone looked the other way.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
• Hildebrandt was also charged with six counts of felony child abuse.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Princess Beatrice's subplot about substance abuse isn't in the film.
  — Town & Country, 11 Aug. 2023
• Survivors of abuse, however, saw the SNL appearance as the act of a prophet.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been accused of rape and a ‘cycle of abuse’ by his ex Cassie in a new lawsuit.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Gomez, 25, has been charged with one count of child abuse without great bodily harm.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• But then Lopez got an email from Rob, saying Jamie’s abuse was starting again and getting worse.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
• The couple plotted to kill Dee Dee as Gypsy sought to escape her mother’s abuse.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• If a school teacher is coming onto you, that’s an abuse of power.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023
• Now, three of them face charges of assault and child abuse, according to Shelby County jail records.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 3 Apr. 2024
• One was a 25-year-old with substance abuse issues who went to live with his mother on the Kenai Peninsula.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
• He is accused of bribery, abuse of office and obstruction of justice.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• But now, his career of calling out abuses of power is coming to an end.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Why choose to continue to sell this product and support monkey abuse?
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• More court services to meet the mounting challenges of homelessness and substance abuse.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
• Even after that, other cases of abuse were mishandled in the late 1990s or kept under wraps.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
• Four other White ex-officers who pleaded guilty to the abuse will be sentenced later this week.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• State social workers received 14 abuse complaints about the couple, the suit stated.
  — Jason Laughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Police booked Harris into jail on one count of second-degree murder and one count of child abuse.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
• P!nk, who has a daughter, Willow, and son, Jameson, has also been frank about her struggles with substance abuse.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 13 June 2023
• Ruby Franke, a former family vlogger and a Utah mother of six, pleaded guilty to child abuse charges.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• Despite the abuse allegations made against Jeremy, he has not been convicted of a crime.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• The church and authorities have acknowledged multiple abuse claims that are not reflected in the initial criminal charges against Bymaster.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• Another civil lawsuit alleging abuse by a contractor––against two psychologists who designed CIA torture techniques––settled in 2017 just before going to trial, resulting in damage awards for the victims or their families.
  — Mallory Moench, TIME, 14 Apr. 2024

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abuse

2 of 2 verb

• She abused her friend's trust.
• He abused his body with years of heavy drinking.
• He had abused his first car by not taking care of it.
• He abused my confidence by letting this secret be known.
• He was accused of sexually abusing a child.
• The look that Asa gives in that very first shot, that’s a kid who’s been abused.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
• He was tortured, abused, and beat up by inmates and guards.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• And that same huge store of data can be abused in other ways.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• Mike Song thought about how AI can be abused and misused.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• Haenel shot her first film at 12 years old, and for the next three years, the director Christophe Ruggia abused her.
  — Kally Patz, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• And, if it's abused by someone else outside of our control, then that's not -- that's not on us.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2023
• It’s revealed that Madu was abused by a dance instructor at a school in Nigeria.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• The kids aren’t physically abused, just raised to be afraid, and also don’t want anything to do with me.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• The judge made the whimsical claim that JetBlue might abuse its new size to stop offering cut-rate fares.
  — Stephen Moore, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024
• Brown, a Jamaican immigrant, said drivers have been abused by Uber and Lyft for too long.
  — Trisha Ahmed, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
• The reality of priests abusing kids was no surprise to you?Absolutely not.
  — Jim McDermott, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
• Some of the boys were still of elementary school age when they were allegedly abused.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• And combined with the girl making up an assault, is there a woman on this show who doesn’t lie about being abused?
  — Vulture, 2 July 2023
• Wheaton had a strong reaction to the footage and revealed he was abused in a similar way growing up.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
• Miller's lawyers said Ellen, who died in 2010, had abused him as a child, creating mental health problems.
  — Paul Larosa, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Pick up any piece of tech and Emma Pickering knows how it can be used to abuse, harass, and stalk women.
  — WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• Some of the scrolls have been sliced in half, scooped out and generally abused in ways that still make historians weep.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2024
• Girls and boys who have lost parents, have been raped or abused, have been recruited as children into armed groups.
  — Rob Williams, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• Bernadine's daughter told police her mother was abused as a child.
  — Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• Moreover, millions of people worldwide who didn’t abuse drugs and weren’t poor or malnourished have died of AIDS.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• These entities abused their power to achieve a common goal: the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
  — Elizabeth Stauffer, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• At the time, Deters revealed that investigators believed the girl had been abused for months.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2024
• Due to the comfort that AI can bring, just like humans, technologies are capable of abusing trust.
  — Hamilton Mann, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Garcia was among eight prison workers, including a chaplain, charged with abusing inmates and the first to go to trial.
  — Olga R. Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges.
  — Maria Piñero, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024