How to Use abusive in a Sentence

abusive

adjective

• The fans yelled abusive comments to the referee.
• 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
• In the movie, the father character, played by LaBeouf, is abusive.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 30 Aug. 2022
• 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
• It’s there in how the film anatomized not just the horrific behavior of abusive priests but the omertà of the Church.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
• But the defense continued to portray the idea that Doug was abusive.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2024
• Chimney tends to a drunk driver, and Maddie is called in when an abusive father shows up at the house.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
• Some 96% of the parents are single mothers, some of whom are trying to leave abusive homes.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 3 Dec. 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
• But the suspicion of abusive head trauma, once raised, is hard to undo.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 29 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The children’s father was abusive and had months earlier taken the kids.
  — Anita Chabriacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• Viewers have accused Franke and her husband, Kevin, of being abusive for years.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• When Stark was still a toddler, his mother left his abusive father in Idaho and moved with her two sons to Nome to be with her brother.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
• Jackson made his debut with the 2020 short film Thompson Farm, which tells the story of a young man who stands up to his abusive adoptive father.
  — Collette Reitz, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2024
• Lee plays Ji-yeong, a player who joins the Game after being released from prison for killing her abusive father.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 13 Sep. 2022
• Songs, secrets and nail polish act as a reprieve from their abusive mother.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
• But Naomi, a thirtysomething friend of his parents’, has other ideas for him, as does his abusive high-school wrestling coach.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025