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How to use abuse in a sentence

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She was held overnight for interrogation, denied food and drink, and subjected to physical abuse.
A Columbia University survey shows teenage girls who date boys two or more years older are much likely to abuse drugs or alcohol.
She was being treated for post traumatic stress disorder by the doctor after suffering sexual abuse.
What induces perpetrators from all walks of life to sexually abuse young children, even infants, often with appalling violence?
That is why I left the group because people were always trying to disrespect and abuse me.
This is clearly an abuse of the public airwaves, and I hope Americans rise up against these stations and take some action to stop this.
Pensioner Ann Quinlan, who lives at St Brendan's Terrace, described the situation as an abuse of civil rights.
Those of us who have spent many years in animal welfare work have often come to see the worst of animal cruelty, abuse and neglect.
The move to introduce a penalty charge could be regarded as an abuse of their dominant position.
As a driver you suffer verbal abuse on a regular basis from drunks, druggies and even schoolchildren.
To suggest going back to the LRC for a third time is really an abuse of a system that is already overloaded.
He goes on to say that those who voted for this government never dreamt that they would countenance such an abuse of democracy.
As far as I'm concerned, you have to look at the circumstances to make a determination whether or not there's been an abuse of that privilege.
There is a lot of abuse, robbery, corruption, crime and theft of our wealth.
The report points out that many doctors are engaging in such practices despite a well-publicized crackdown on insurance fraud and abuse.
He was Russia's most renowned investigative reporter, specializing in abuse and corruption by a system that could produce little else.
In 1992 he was prosecuted by the council in the magistrates court after hurling abuse at a member of the public.
In working with investigators, device companies should ensure that their actions are consistent with laws intended to combat fraud and abuse.
He's trying to reform a system that he inherited, which is riddled with centers of interest and some corruption and abuse.
Does it have a multi-faceted approach, including training, to fight fraud and abuse?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Yes, they have good times, their freedom is large, and they do not abuse it.
If he would abuse the other side a little more, and stick in a little tinsel and calcium light he would be great.
The excitable Carolinian has got some one to hear him abuse Cuba, and glorify Charleston.
He is a traitor to affiance and abuse to employment, and a rule of villainy in a plot of mischief.
Having paused awhile for words, I poured forth a torrent of abuse on ahern.
Still, for all this irritating abuse Vulp had only himself and his ancestry to blame.
Much had been effected by the use, or rather abuse, of the terms federalist and anti-federalist, federalism and anti-federalism.
Let us rejoice that one such partisan was now at hand to stem the torrent of abuse.
Yet writers abuse the fierce and vicious eagle, while they belaud the gentle and good robin.
The weather, being practically the bete noire of our existence, came in for a good deal of abuse.
That would have been an abuse of our treaties, and unworthy of your character.
Meanwhile, the abuse of the public purse goes on ad infinitum and we are left to rot.
The inference is that the use of birth control is good, its abuse bad.
The mode here adopted to disgust the slave with freedom, by allowing him to see only the abuse of it, is carried out in other things.
You will be apter to abuse your inferiors than well to govern them.
The loudest whingers of press abuse are often the whited sepulchres whose calamitous private lives give rise to mirth and gaiety when revealed.
He ended a string of abuse by a vicious backhander, which I failed to entirely avoid.
Nor is the abuse all true, in attributing to him motives so low.
If they do not succeed in bagging the expected game, they abuse him.
Abandonment and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of love.
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