Sentence example with the word 'abuse'

abuse

abuse of office, bleed white, debauchment, dispraise, get into trouble, libel, misemploy, philippic, ravishment, swear at, write off

Definition n. cruel or inhumane treatment

Last update: July 4, 2015

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Don't abuse your privileges or they will be taken away.   [verb]

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Abuse of medicine can be very dangerous.   [noun]

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But generation after generation the spirit was abused by priests and rulers.   [Please select]

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There is widespread abuse of energy resources.   [noun]

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Angrily they abuse him as charlatan or madman.   [Please select]

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Be prudent, therefore, and do not abuse my bounty.   [Please select]

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There was no term of abuse known to the Huron vocabulary that the disappointed women did not lavishly expend on the successful stranger.   [Please select]

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"It is rather joy than labor to the spirit, to lift up the voice in praise; but sadly do these boys abuse their gifts."   [verb]

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"Man's voice is given to him, like his other talents, to be used, and not to be abused."   [Please select]

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"Natur' is sadly abused by man, when he once gets the mastery."'   [Please select]

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"On my honor, no," exclaimed Duncan, warmly; "there would have been an abuse of a confided trust, had I taken advantage of my situation for such a purpose."   [Please select]

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