Use "violent" in a sentence

1. But here, the Instinct said she could always withdraw her consent, any violent move he tried to make would leave him paralyzed

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2. Upon seeing the eyes of the little beast, Topher whipped the door into a closed position, silencing the violent wind, though the child’s greedy finger, writhing like a serpent, burrowed its way into his thoughts

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3. The reason for this is, that after we have participated in the happenings of the day and in the general give and take of life, the mind is in a state of violent vibration; this is not the case if the meditation is performed first thing in the morning

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4. union, until, just as they began the last violent thrusts of fire rimmed ardour, just as

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5. midst of it all, as if conducting a violent symphony of discord, there stood the man in

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6. Whatever dimensional membrane made up the walls of the transit echoed with the detonation, rippling with waves so violent, the walls of that great vein seemed to reverberate against each other before they tore

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7. With each item listed in his panoply of destruction, images flowed and twisted together, images of limbs and contorted faces, of blood and bone and rock, and in the midst of it all, as if conducting a violent symphony of discord, there stood the man in black, his flowing locks streaming in the winds and currents of calamitous fatality as his arms gesticulated wildly

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8. "Fight with what? A hakken perhaps? That would get pretty violent, but there are probably places where they do

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9. ROBERT: Would you say he's a violent man?

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10. From behind it Alan brought the club down with a violent whoosh to the forward center of it's body just behind the eye

11. It was fortunate that I wasn't a violent manic

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12. Without these qualities life will be violent and everything that makes us essentially Sophian, will be lost

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13. The history of eruptions, being by its very nature violent, would have been proud to record the effects of Annie’s full explosive force as it hit her brother’s online world with maximum venom

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14. Bishop Rendellyn was delivering violent sermons again

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15. It was lusty, very physical, violent, rushed, and extremely sensual

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16. Mama's minions began the most violent search possible

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17. violent, would have been proud to record the effects of Annie’s full

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18. Chrissie shrank into herself, becoming as invisible as she could; she had seen Chas in one of his violent moods before and was anxious to keep out of his way

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19. attack, when it came, was swift and violent

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20. She heard it before she reached the edge of the cliff – a violent, shushing, surging noise

21. violent twist, followed by a loud crack

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22. 'Long before all the tribes of the great plains came under the sway of the first great chief, far away in an open field beyond the distant mountains, two groups of young men from 'the people' armed themselves with spears, sticks, and bows and excited each other to the verge of a violent fight

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23. down in one violent gulp

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24. being the selfish, violent beasts we really are?” AI-Arnold asked

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25. The August weather was not uncommonly intemperate in either warmth or chill, nor had there been any violent summer storms

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26. They aren’t violent

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27. most violent fight—what his constituents paid to see

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28. violent snarls from the floor of the arena

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29. The discussion in the hall turned violent

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30. committed so many violent acts toward women that I can’t even count or

31. Maybe you see a vision of something violent happening to a friend, and you know this is not God’s will for their life

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32. He rolled with the momentum, but even so, it was a violent roll, and though the ground was sand-covered, a layer of hardened silica was not far beneath

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33. Alone, they softly hummed, but when touched together they created a wave a sound so violent it could rupture an enemy’s organs from over a hundred yards away, or crack stone within a hundred standard feet

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34. The policy must be as violent as that of Indostan or ancient Egypt (where every man was bound by a principle of religion to follow the occupation of his father, and was supposed to commit the most horrid sacrilege if he changed it for another), which can in any particular employment, and for several generations together, sink either the wages of labour or the profits of stock below their natural rate

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35. The violent emotions, followed by this rough speech, so far unlike him, showed me how deep was the breakdown of his mind

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36. violent reductions of interest was to prepare the way for reducing that of the public debts ; a

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37. She then told him of her son’s violent love for the princess

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38. stricken with violent retching and vomiting

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39. If such violent methods are necessary to keep up the present price of tobacco, the superior advantage of its culture over that of corn, if it still has any, will not probably be of long continuance

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40. The Magic veneer that was his face appeared angry, violent, and perhaps even deadly

41. The hooded congregation shuffled to do his bidding, the noise and blood and the violent butchery having subdued any feelings of retaliation

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42. Without superstitions, it is violent, cruel,

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43. The coffers of such a company, too, though they ought to be filled much fuller, yet must empty themselves much faster than if their business was confined within more reasonable bounds, and must require not only a more violent, but a more constant and uninterrupted exertion of expense, in order to replenish them, The coin, too, which is thus continually drawn in such large quantities from their coffers, cannot be employed in the circulation of the country

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44. The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures, and corn fields, and thereby to increase, very considerably, the annual produce of its land and labour

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45. , To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free

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46. Those unproductive hands who should be maintained by a part only of the spare revenue of the people, may consume so great a share of their whole revenue, and thereby oblige so great a number to encroach upon their capitals, upon the funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour, that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate the waste and degradation of produce occasioned by this violent and forced encroachment

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47. The creature looks more indolent than violent

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48. The motion was so violent, Nerissa thought he meant to strike

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49. Yes, it was a dog-eat-dog (well, coyote-eat-gopher) world, where the apparent universal, natural aggressiveness of territorial animals and most primates led to frequent violent encounters in the seemingly peaceful prairie

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50. Sometimes they have been introduced in the manner above mentioned, by the violent operation, if one may say so, of the stocks of particular merchants and undertakers, who established them in imitation of some foreign manufactures of the same kind

51. In countries where a rich man can spend his revenue in no other way than by maintaining as many people as it can maintain, he is apt to run out, and his benevolence, it seems, is seldom so violent as to attempt to maintain more than he can afford

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52. In commercial countries, therefore, riches, in spite of the most violent regulations of law to prevent their dissipation, very seldom remain long in the same family

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53. Taking into account the previous, could you go on as always, without feeling dumped on, angry, distressed, depressed, or whatever negative, violent, or other emotions that might pop up in your mind? Would this affect you just a little, somewhat, or perhaps a lot? In other words, how dependent are you on these things to have a rich and fulfilling life? More specifically, how dependent are you on external factors, as opposed to being internally centered and in tune with yourself and your loved ones to be able to feel whole, relaxed, and satisfied with your Earthly existence?

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54. That which arises from the more solid improvements of agriculture is much more durable, and cannot be destroyed but by those more violent convulsions occasioned by the depredations of hostile and barbarous nations continued for a century or two together ; such as those that happened for some time before and after the fall of the Roman empire in the western provinces of Europe

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55. A couple of days ago one of the men that I was to serve was being violent

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56. When the act of navigation was made, though England and Holland were not actually at war, the most violent animosity subsisted between the two nations

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57. Because you tend to keep your emotions inside, it is finding expression in your dreams in a violent way

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58. blinding, I had a youth as violent as yours

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59. Even the violent and arbitrary

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60. This superiority of conduct is suitable both to the character of the French nation, and to what forms the character of every nation, the nature of their government, which, though arbitrary and violent in comparison with that of Great Britain, is legal and free in comparison with those of Spain and Portugal

61. She finally stopped her violent shaking and drifted in and out of fevered dreams

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62. violent cyclones and storms within the first

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63. All sorts of stories were written - some were sad, romantic, funny, inspiring, violent while others were bordering absurdity

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64. ” announced James as the violent roaring faded away

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65. It vanquished and subdued, after a long and violent struggle, indeed, the gallant and well exercised militias of the principal republics of ancient Greece; and afterwards, with very little struggle, the effeminate and ill exercised militia of the great Persian empire

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66. postulated that she had tried to over-rule its recommendation, and in a fit of pique had attempted to disable it in a violent manner

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67. Chris opened his eyes and was about to look round when there was a violent fizzing sound

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68. With a violent jet of flame the flare propelled itself into Lucy’s chest, embedding itself through her HEPO and knocking her a full two steps backwards

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69. But the factions of the Greeks were almost always violent and sanguinary ; whereas, till the time of the Gracchi, no blood had ever been shed in any Roman faction; and from the time of the Gracchi, the Roman republic may be considered as in reality dissolved

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70. We attempted to protect the children from the more violent sandy wind, but I knew some would have sand burns from this

71. Each ghostly practitioner, in order to render himself more precious and sacred in the eyes of his retainers, will inspire them with the most violent abhorrence of all other sects, and continually endeavour, by some novelty, to excite the languid devotion of his audience

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72. Times of violent religious controversy have generally been times of equally violent political faction

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73. It is so in every gradation of despotism, from that of the gentle and mild government of Paris, to that of the violent and furious

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74. So small a matter as the appointment of a parish priest, occasioned almost always a violent contest, not only in one parish, but in all the neighbouring parishes who seldom failed to take part in the quarrel

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75. Faction, combined with the interest of smuggling merchants, raised so violent, though so unjust a clamour, against that bill, that the minister thought proper to drop it ; and, from a dread of exciting a clamour of the same kind, none of his successors have dared to resume the project

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76. There was an energy emanating from her; not the kind of energy that one senses from an athlete or a dynamic worker, such as Shelagh had, but an almost violent deep-rooted energy - a vibrant restlessness, even as she sat there sleeping

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77. So sudden and so great a bankruptcy, we should in the present times be apt to imagine, must have occasioned a very violent popular clamour

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78. violent squalls of wind

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79. “It’s alright for you your numbers not thirteen” and I watched as a violent tremor shook his body

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80. Shenandoah spent several days in and out of violent storms that tossed the vessel unmercifully

81. Aquila, during a violent storm

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82. The weather was cold, and the violent storms they

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83. in the southern Pacific where it was warm and less violent

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84. Despite the decline in religion, violent crime and political terrorism had actually risen

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85. Now here she was, in a cold and violent prison, with no support and no one to confide in

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86. In some ways it felt amazing that such a tender emotion could grow in such a sterile and violent place

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87. It had been a sudden, violent death, and unprecedented in their knowledge

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88. What caused his death to be so sudden, so violent?

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89. The sound of boots crunching on the yard floor shook Raven from his violent frenzy

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90. The true horror of what he had done to Seraphia approached him slowly, and as the violent haze passed from his mind, he looked down at her cold, lifeless body in his arms

91. Rachel was a depressive; she would even use that to justify her violent tendencies as a child and the constant bad moods

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92. " "The seals are violent toward intruders

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93. They had roamed the land for millions of years, but had never evolved beyond the violent lives they led

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94. “Rufus was the cause of that action, though it was unfortunately a violent one

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95. There was the normal amount of jostling, but no violent interventions, miraculously enough

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96. Halon had seen many colours behind the globe’s facade but this seemed a violent, intense anger and directed at the hermit, or what was once the hermit

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97. His body began to glow a violent red and yellow

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