How to Use violence in a Sentence

violence

noun

• The violence of the storm caused great fear.
• They need to learn how to settle their arguments without resorting to violence.
• The risk of violence has become a backdrop for protests and polls in the US.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2022
• Reading the data and name list, the violence against the victims is stark.
  — Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• His death at the age of 67 sent shockwaves around the world and stunned the nation, where gun violence is rare.
  — Time, 22 Dec. 2022
• 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
• His face: the deep lines in his forehead and cheeks had a look of violence about them, more like wounds than like the marks of age.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• With Haiti in the grips of gang violence, the U.S. diaspora lends a hand.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
• The shooting comes as the city faces a spike in violent crime and gun violence.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2023
• The boy was charged in that case with threats of violence and an attempt to commit auto theft, O'Hara said.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
• He was taken from us too soon due to a senseless act of gun violence!
  — Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
• The first option is to learn to live with our current level of gun violence.
  — Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 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
• Decades of militia violence have taken grip of the DRC, as state forces struggle to curb rebel groups.
  — Delia Gallagher, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
• In Texas alone, at least three drag shows have been disrupted or canceled in the past month due to threats of violence.
  — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 7 Jan. 2023
• For years, the elder Trump has voiced his support for violence.
  — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
• The attack by the settlers was part of an escalating wave of tit-for-tat violence in the West Bank.
  — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
• The role of the heated WhatsApp discourse in the violence remains unclear.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• It’s a darker love, protective to the point of violence.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• And if the violence is quite frequent and exquisitely graphic?
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
• The story might have even ended there, one of a growing number of artists who have died due to gun violence.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
• For students and staff, the loss of two students to gun violence felt all too familiar.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Oct. 2022
• There was no credible threat of violence at the school Thursday, the school district stressed.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• But the reason for that volatility was that there was a cycle of violence.
  — Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
• He's called for protests and that's raising concerns about violence.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• All the candidates have pledged to rein in the escalation of violence.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 26 July 2023
• The election was also marred by violence in places, although not yet on the scale of previous ones.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• But one type of violence that has not declined is the lynching of ordinary Muslims.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
• In 2012, as Syria descended into violence, Moises and I travelled to Aleppo with a crew of insurgent rebels and caught an early glimpse of the war’s horrors.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025