Explore Violence through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like force or intensity. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Violence in a sentence
Violence meaning
- Extreme force.
- Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.
- Widespread fighting.
Synonyms of Violence
Using Violence
- The main meaning on this page is: Extreme force. | Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering. | Widespread fighting.
- Useful related words include: force, upheaval, turbulence, intensiveness.
- In the example corpus, violence often appears in combinations such as: domestic violence, violence and, of violence.
Example sentences (20)
A total of 45 incidents occurred because of learner-on-learner violence, one due to teacher-to-teacher violence, six due to learner-on-teacher violence, and four incidents resulting from teacher-on-learner violence.
Violence can be broadly divided into three broad categories – direct violence, structural violence and cultural violence.
When "modern states not only claim a monopoly of the legitimate means of violence; they also routinely use the threat of violence to enforce the rule of law", the law not only becomes a form of violence but is violence.
Similar links are apparent in gun violence in the US, although that violence is visible and harder to hide than prison violence.
Operation Amarok - which targets domestic violence offenders - ensures those on bail for domestic violence offences are complying not only with the bail but their apprehended domestic violence orders.
According to her, although, the Domestic Violence Law protects women from gender violence, Akai however, urged Lagosians and Nigerians to do more to respond to cries for justice from “women and the girlchild that have suffered violence.
According to the Violence Against Children survey, children who experienced sexual violence have lower rates of disclosure compared to those who experienced physical violence.
He tweeted, "If is thinking that we are going to sit silently afraid of this violence, then it is a misunderstanding, our history is not afraid or we do violence, we only fight the truth of non-violence.
About 11 million women reported they experienced sexual violence, physical violence, or other forms of violence or stalking by an intimate partner before the age of 18.
However, social taboos surrounding domestic violence in general could be responsible for the lack of reports of sexual violence, and for the underreporting of domestic violence committed by children.
Key findings of the study showed that intimate partner violence (IPV) and violence by family members were the most common forms of violence experienced by women in Ghana.
Power-based violence includes domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, elder abuse, child abuse and bullying.
We need to combat violence in three key ways: addressing violence as a public health issue by providing trauma treatment and mental health services; curbing illegal gun access; and revitalizing schools and communities afflicted by gun violence.
According to Crone, a third aspect that helped make the violence humorous was that Punch’s violence toward his wife was prompted by her own violence toward him.
This final act of violence shows how Turnus' violence—the act of killing Pallas—inevitably leads to more violence and his own death.
When questioned whether violence and non-violence is both taught in Quran, he stated, "I have heard it from many Muslim friends that the Koran teaches the use of non-violence.
Zwi, Garfield, & Loretti (2002) Collective violence, In Krug et al (Eds) World report on violence and health Criminal justice One of the main functions of law is to regulate violence.
According to the monitoring group, they recorded a total of 131 cases of violence in February alone, “with 89 of them being presidential election day violence”.
Anti-violence activist Tarang Chawla, former Australian of the Year and campaigner Rosie Batty, and Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin will attend the conference.
As part of Public Safety for All efforts, the City of Somerville is bringing in the nationally recognized Urban Peace Institute for an anti-violence initiative that will include the creation of a community-based Anti-Violence Working Group.
Common combinations with violence
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- domestic violence 58×
- violence and 44×
- of violence 44×
- violence in 36×
- gun violence 28×
- the violence 28×
- sexual violence 24×
- violence against 24×
- gender-based violence 16×
- violence is 12×