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. Her husband was a violent man.
2. The film contains some violent scenes.
3. The growth of violent crime is a very real problem.
4. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent shock.
5. She thought the film far too violent to show to children.

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 Meanings and Examples of VIOLENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
violent
 a.  turbulent; intensely vivid or loud; by violence or bloodshed
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)
16  A quarter of current inmates have committed violent crimes.
17  Not a few violent scenes were cut from the film before it came to show.
18  Some addicts suffer violent mood swings if deprived of the drug.
19  They claim that some computer games encourage violent behaviour in young children.
20  She thought the film far too violent to show to children.
21  The film contains some violent scenes.
22  Haiti's first elected president was deposed in a violent military coup.
23  The growth of violent crime is a very real problem.
24  An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.
25  Her husband was a violent man.
26  Students were involved in violent clashes with the police.
27  The train stopped with a violent jerk , nearly tipping me out of my bunk.
28  The organization helped defuse potentially violent situations.
29  Whether these controls will really reduce violent crime is a moot point.
30  History shows that the usual response to violent protest is repression.