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.

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bully
 n.  noisy, blustering fellow; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; insolent, tyrannical fellow
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  You mean men you can always bully.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  However, Johnnie Gallegher is a cold little bully if I ever saw one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
5  But you were born to bully anyone who'll let you do it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  The strong were made to bully and the weak to knuckle under.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  Somehow, she must stand him off, bully him into submission, this Rhett she had never seen before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  'Shows me for what I was, a young curate, and her for what she was, a bully,' he said.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
10  And the woman was not altogether a bully, though her jowl was heavy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
11  Thank God she's not a bully, nor a fool.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
12  Her deepest desire was to bully me, and there was no altering her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  I think if you give me a full and unlimited commission to bully Giles, and that little boy, Brittles, I can manage it.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
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
15  Williamson, the ex-clergyman, bowed to us with mock politeness, and the bully, Woodley, advanced with a shout of brutal and exultant laughter.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
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.