BULLY in a Sentence
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58 example sentences for BULLY, such as:
1. You mean men you can always bully.
2. I fell victim to the office bully.
3. Thank God she's not a bully, nor a fool.
4. But you were born to bully anyone who'll let you do it.
5. Ricky used to bully the younger kids in the neighborhood.
2. I fell victim to the office bully.
3. Thank God she's not a bully, nor a fool.
4. But you were born to bully anyone who'll let you do it.
5. Ricky used to bully the younger kids in the neighborhood.
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Meanings and Examples of BULLY
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bully
n. a hired thug
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1 If she had to wait much longer, Mammy would certainly come in search of her and bully her into the house.
2 You mean men you can always bully.
3 If necessary, she would bully Frank into giving him a job in the store, make Frank turn off the boy he now had behind the counter.
4 However, Johnnie Gallegher is a cold little bully if I ever saw one.
5 But you were born to bully anyone who'll let you do it.
6 The strong were made to bully and the weak to knuckle under.
7 Somehow, she must stand him off, bully him into submission, this Rhett she had never seen before.
8 For the first time in her life she had met someone, something stronger than she, someone she could neither bully nor break, someone who was bullying and breaking her.
9 'Shows me for what I was, a young curate, and her for what she was, a bully,' he said.
10 And the woman was not altogether a bully, though her jowl was heavy.
11 Thank God she's not a bully, nor a fool.
12 Her deepest desire was to bully me, and there was no altering her.
13 I think if you give me a full and unlimited commission to bully Giles, and that little boy, Brittles, I can manage it.
14 His soft, precise fashion of speech leaves a conviction of sincerity which a mere bully could not produce.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
Context Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
15 Williamson, the ex-clergyman, bowed to us with mock politeness, and the bully, Woodley, advanced with a shout of brutal and exultant laughter.
Example Sentence:
1 The school bully will bait the smaller children, terrorizing them.
2 I found early in life that the best way to defeat a bully is a punch to the nose.
3 A 98 pound weakling can't attack a beachfront bully with impunity.
4 The bully was initially truculent but eventually stopped picking fights at the least provocation.
5 I fell victim to the office bully.
6 Ricky used to bully the younger kids in the neighborhood.
7 Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out.
8 Christine, the play's bullying main character, wouldn't last a minute in the real world.
9 He said that the press had misrepresented him as arrogant and bullying.
10 The project should raise general awareness about bullying.
11 Such civil conscripts could well be subjected to the kind of bullying which may have helped persuade them to avoid the army in the first place.
12 He was resigned when he saw Bob was too meek to protest Scrooge's bullying.
13 Faced with racist bullying by other housemates, first there was sympathy, but now the media here in India is becoming increasingly negative.