VIOLATION in a Sentence

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For VIOLATION, below is one of 42 sentences:
Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant.

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 Meanings and Examples of VIOLATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
violation
 n.  an act that disregards an agreement or a right
 n.  a crime less serious than a felony
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  It is really too great a violation of decency, honour, and interest, for him to be guilty of.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47
2  I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—A
4  In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that strangers had made their way into it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN
5  He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6  For their envoys, who had violated the law of nations, and had therefore deserved punishment, they had on the contrary treated with honour.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXVIII.
7  by the law of the land, which is not to be violated.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr. Darcy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56
9  He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
10  But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  The whip-man would certainly not have accepted this substitution anyway, as in that way he would have seriously violated his duty without gaining any benefit.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
12  While you looked so, I should be certain that whatever charter you might grant under coercion, your first act, when released, would be to violate its conditions.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
14  Next he attacks Sthenius, and Anchemolus of Rhoetus' ancient family, who dared to violate the bridal chamber of his stepmother.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
15  And hence let princes learn that from the hour they first violate those laws, customs, and usages under which men have lived for a great while, they begin to weaken the foundations of their authority.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  These instructions are mandatory, any violation will be severely punished.
2  In violation of the Miranda law, the policemen grill the suspect for several hours before reading him his rights.
3  In the name of solidarity, Europeans are being asked to subsidize irresponsible behavior, in reckless violation of the EU's treaties.
4  The governor's appointment of his brother-in-law to the State Supreme Court was a flagrant violation of the state laws against nepotism.
5  When the principal canceled the senior prom because some seniors had been late to school that week, we thought the draconian punishment was far too harsh for such a minor violation of the rules.
6  Refugee workers said such action was a violation of medical ethics.
7  They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
8  The attack on civilians is a flagrant violation of the peace agreement.
9  The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law".
10  The courts struck down local segregation laws because they violated the federal constitution.
11  I should be certain that whatever charter you might grant under coercion, your first act, when released, would be to violate its conditions.
12  Nuclear weapons seem to violate the just war principle of proportionality.
13  They were charged with violating federal law.
14  The doctor has been accused of violating professional ethics.
15  The delegation submitted a memorandum to the Commons on the blatant violations of basic human rights.