Below you will find example sentences with "cause harassment". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Cause Harassment in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 9
  • Discovered as a combination around: harassment
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 30.1 words

Words in this phrase

cause harassment

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • cause can mean: The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result. Common word
  • harassment can mean: Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 0 start, 3 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

likely to cause harassment alarm or 5× behaviour to cause harassment alarm or 2× behaviour to cause harassment alarm and 1× behaviour to cause harassment alarm distress 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

andrew green 49 1× farrell previously pleaded 1× he also admitted 1× he pleaded not 1× james white 33 1× shaun harley 36 1×

Common sentence endings:

alarm or distress 5× harassment alarm distress 1× on august 23 1× on july 27 1× tuesday may 5 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

alarm 9× distress 9× threatening 8× abusive 8× guilty 7× words 7× behaviour 6× assault 6× using 6× insulting 5× pleaded 5× likely 5×

Related phrases

sexual harassment root cause may cause harassment alarm first cause leading cause

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around harassment:

harassment alarm 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

caught driving cattle producers cattle prices cattle breeders catholic schools catholic school

Just after it in the phrase index:

caused considerable causing bodily causing death causing serious causing severe cautionary tale

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

sexual harassment

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "cause harassment" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 30.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as likely to cause harassment alarm or, behaviour to cause harassment alarm or, alarm, distress and threatening stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with sexual harassment, root cause, may cause and harassment alarm, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with cause harassment

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

He also admitted possession of cannabis and using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. (21 words)

Andrew Green, 49, of High Hazles Drive, Huthwaite, was found guilty of: threatening/abusive insulting words/behaviour to cause harassment/alarm/distress. (22 words)

The 48-year-old pleaded guilty to behaving in a manner likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress in Chippenham on July 27. (23 words)

Longer example sentences

Steven James Balchin, of New Road, Brading, admitted common assault against Victim A, and two counts of using threatening, abusive and insulting words and behaviour to cause harassment, alarm and distress, to Victim B and Victim C, on August 23. (40 words)

Shaun Harley, 36, of Bainton Grove, Hull indicated a plea of guilty to the possession of cannabis with intent to supply and pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress. (39 words)

Farrell previously pleaded guilty to assault occasioning grievous bodily harm with intent, common assault, assault by beating, assault of an emergency worker and using threatening, abusive or insulting words likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. (36 words)

Example sentences (9)

Andrew Green, 49, of High Hazles Drive, Huthwaite, was found guilty of: threatening/abusive insulting words/behaviour to cause harassment/alarm/distress.

Farrell previously pleaded guilty to assault occasioning grievous bodily harm with intent, common assault, assault by beating, assault of an emergency worker and using threatening, abusive or insulting words likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

He also admitted possession of cannabis and using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

He pleaded not guilty to assault by beating and using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday (May 5).

James White, 33, of Warwickshire, pleaded guilty at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Monday to displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

Smith was charged with failing to comply with a dispersal order, a racially or religiously aggravated public order offence, and using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

Steven James Balchin, of New Road, Brading, admitted common assault against Victim A, and two counts of using threatening, abusive and insulting words and behaviour to cause harassment, alarm and distress, to Victim B and Victim C, on August 23.

Shaun Harley, 36, of Bainton Grove, Hull indicated a plea of guilty to the possession of cannabis with intent to supply and pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

The 48-year-old pleaded guilty to behaving in a manner likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress in Chippenham on July 27.