How to Use abusive in a Sentence

abusive

adjective

• The fans yelled abusive comments to the referee.
• People hurled abusive comments at them on social media and in emails.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
• The children’s father was abusive and had months earlier taken the kids.
  — Anita Chabriacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• The woman and relatives said in court documents their relationship was abusive.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• Historically, air travel has been inconvenient at best for such travelers, and, at worst, abusive and painful.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 10 Nov. 2022
• Part of this process involved leaving the Church in 2016 and distancing herself from her abusive father.
  — USA Today, 17 Nov. 2022
• Opponents are especially concerned for teenagers who live in homes that are abusive, neglectful or otherwise unsafe.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 29 Nov. 2022
• The seventh of 10 children, Thao left home at 17 and later fled an abusive relationship while pregnant with her son.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Nov. 2022
• In the 10 years since the shooting, thousands of people in abusive relationships have sought and received help from local nonprofits.
  — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2022
• Gaslighting is mostly used in describing abusive relationships, and sometimes in reference to politicians and newsmakers, too.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2022
• Later, Burke detailed abusive relationships with former boyfriends last year in a video uploaded onto her YouTube channel.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• And all the Papaya Games are governed by the same abusive terms.
  — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
• My father has been abusive to me my whole life, and I’ve been estranged from him for years.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• At 13, she was removed from an abusive home and put in foster care.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Her husband was abusive even before the drought that’s now ravaging Kenya’s arid north, the worst in decades.
  — Aie Balagtas See, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
• On Tuesday, Chokr again was abusive, but was on mute, and so his comments couldn't be heard.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2022
• And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
• But the defense continued to portray the idea that Doug was abusive.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2024
• Lakota-Lynch plays Johnny Cade, a shy 16-year-old from an abusive home.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
• But he was also known to be a demanding, even abusive, boss.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Drake also doubled down on his claims that Lamar was abusive.
  — Shaheem Reid, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
• Eve, a pregnant woman with an abusive ex, joined the series as the couple was looking to adopt.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• That grasp, many former members and critics have said, was an abusive one.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• Cassie’s husband, Fine, spoke out following the release of the footage, taking abusive men to task.
  — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 17 Sep. 2024
• More:Women who lived in abusive marriages in the US have been abandoned overseas.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
• Judges and juries tended to blame the women for staying with their abusive partners.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• The moment called for Moore, as Mary, to toss a handful of dirt into the camera lens and onto the casket of her late, abusive husband.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
• The plaintiff’s lawyers alleged in the complaint the archdiocese was aware of Close’s abusive behaviors.
  — Nicki Brown, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• They’ve also been co-opted for creating abusive deepfakes.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
• Case puts spotlight on shaken baby syndrome Mr. Roberson’s case has renewed debate over shaken baby syndrome, known in the medical community as abusive head trauma.
  — Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024