VIOLENCE in a Sentence

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For VIOLENCE, below is one of 268 sentences:
The man crashed backwards to the floor, sprawling into the dining room with a violence that shook the furniture.

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 Meanings and Examples of VIOLENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
violence
 n.  physical force exerted for the purpose of damaging or abusing
Classic Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
1  Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Scarlett, seeing him for the first time in more than two years, was frightened by the violence of her feelings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  Rhett turned the horse's slow feet westward from Peachtree and the wobbling wagon jounced into the rutty lane with a violence that wrenched an abruptly stifled moan from Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  The man crashed backwards to the floor, sprawling into the dining room with a violence that shook the furniture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  Expecting violence, this gentle and loverlike gesture startled her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  He was a man and Tony was a man and this situation of violence was men's business in which a woman had no part.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  No, she didn't want her children raised in this welter of hate and uncertainty, of bitterness and violence lurking just below the surface, of poverty and grinding hardships and insecurity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  And they were caring about life again, caring with the same urgency and the same violence that animated them before the war had cut their lives in two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  Melanie did not even apologize for her crossness but went back to her sewing with small violence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  Rhett said they would not have come at all, except for fear of violence at the hands of Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  Melanie paused for breath and Scarlett stared at her, startled out of her own anger by the quivering note of violence in Melanie's voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
13  Then suddenly he wrenched himself from her, confusing her by his violence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
14  His voice still held a remnant of its wonted cool drawl but beneath the words she could feel violence fighting its way to the surface, violence as cruel as the crack of a whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
15  He accused himself of deeds she did not understand; he mumbled the name of Belle Watling and then he shook her with his violence as he cried: "I've killed Scarlett, I've killed her."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
16  He condemned the protesters' use of violence against the police.
17  Police records attest to his long history of violence.
18  The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
19  They were substituting violence for dialogue.
20  The world people preach down terrorism and violence.
21  There have been several instances of violence at the school.
22  He slammed the door with violence.
23  The film is full of mindless violence.
24  Despite dire threats of violence from extremist groups, the protest passed off peacefully.
25  I found a lot of the violence in the film totally unnecessary.
26  The violence was the result of political and ethnic conflicts.
27  The police are hoping that the violence will soon subside.
28  The fourth night of violence in the German city of Rostock was triggered by football supporters.
29  So far, there has been very little violence on the picket line.
30  Most people are willing to condemn violence of any sort as evil.