an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
Used in a Sentence
violence
How to use violence in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for violence.
Editorial note
No one used sexual violence on you, at least that you remember.
Examples14
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of violence gathered in one view.
the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for violence.
noun
an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
See also: force
noun
the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
See also: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness
noun
a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Example sentences
No one used sexual violence on you, at least that you remember.
War refugees brought with them tales of violence unheard of in Europe since the Nazi years.
With many of them you risk violence, drugs, abuse, sexual abuse, racism, etc.
Almost every act of violence was drug debt related.
Over the decades I've been on the teams of high profile games and films with medium levels of violence.
On the games with medium levels of violence, of the half dozen fan emails only one would be praise, the others would be serious hate mail.
"The big players in the AAA sector believe the people want military shooters and open-world games full of the old ultra violence.
Even the locals will not venture out in the evening unaccompanied by the opposite sex. Sexual violence and molestation is a daily affair.
* The abused has an inability to place the responsibility for the violence elsewhere.
As opposed to the endless steam of first person shooters that came before it that were even more straightforward, simplistic, and violence-driven?Blaming Microsoft for this is insane.
Most of them were born to a life where poverty, drugs, violence and lack of education all being concentrated in their environment led to them being systematically channeled into prison.
Some of us, however, remember the torment, the humiliation, the violence, the scorn and the ostracism of finding science, electronics, and computers fascinating.
That's likely at least an order of magnitude less than happen in reality, and it's likely that the small minority that are actually reported by administrators have special aspects of them that make them highly non-representative of all sexual violence in prisons.
"As to being bigger and stronger, perhaps we should look to the nation of Japan and the feats its military was able to achieve with men roughly the size of north american women"Maybe in this context you should look at Japanese men and women and find that in this case, as in pretty much every culture, men tend to be bigger and stronger then women and violence from one to the other is heavily weighted in the same direction.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use violence in a sentence?
No one used sexual violence on you, at least that you remember.
What does violence mean?
an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
What part of speech is violence?
violence is commonly used as noun.