VIOLENT in a Sentence

Learn VIOLENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
265 example sentences for VIOLENT, such as:
1. She started to get a bit violent.
2. His behavior fits a pattern of violent acts.
3. The soldiers launched into a violent attack.
4. The love that is too violent will not last long.
5. The announcement led to violent civil disorders.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of VIOLENT
violent
 a.  acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
 a.  (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The same day the earth sustained a most violent concussion.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  The almost violent serenity of the funereal moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, and, possibly, a violent man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
4  At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
5  He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
6  One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on the grated front of his shop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
7  In order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
8  A singular and violent group made its appearance on the threshold.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
9  His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
10  Cosette could not make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of violent blows and unmerited chastisement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
11  He experienced at that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
12  Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt changes of opinion.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
13  The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent shock.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
14  The violent conflict which had been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; and every moment he encountered some new phase of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
15  He was violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  The government must take action now to stop the rise in violent crime.
2  The soldiers launched into a violent attack.
3  Some violent men beat up their sons, until the boys are strong enough to hit back.
4  The love that is too violent will not last long.
5  He became violent and abusive toward Ben's mother.
6  Children should not be allowed to watch violent movies.
7  The recoil was so violent it almost tore the weapon from his grasp.
8  Alcohol can produce violent, disruptive behavior.
9  His behavior fits a pattern of violent acts.
10  She started to get a bit violent.
11  The announcement led to violent civil disorders.
12  Polish referee Ryszard Wojoik reported two Leeds United players for violent conduct.
13  A regional conflict would erupt into violent warfare.
14  UN troops intervened to avert a threat of violent conflict.
15  Police have to be realistic about violent crime.