Sentence examples for badly abused from inspiring English sources

Some were badly abused and further traumatized by bouncing from foster home to foster home.

The petioles look like soft green steel wool, "or a badly abused toothbrush," Mr. Bauer said.

… We didn't really say, "This is a badly abused nation, and helping this get on its feet is going to be a long-term, difficult, expensive project".

But there were always those who felt that "Carrie," like its unhappy heroine, had been badly abused and could have shone bright instead of flaming out.

"She had a searing experience in the 80's with the crusade against the cultural pollutants in Hollywood, and she was badly abused," he said.

My dog Maisie, well known to Guardian readers, came to us all the way from Ireland, where she had been badly abused and neglected.

Instead, he received a phone call from a child placement agency with shocking news: He would not be allowed to adopt again because his son, who was sexually abused and badly beaten by his biological parents, is listed on a state registry of people who abuse children.

And most abusers will treat their partners very badly and at the point when the abused partner has had about enough, the abuser will start acting all sweet and blurting tearful apologies.

The reader picks up a sprawling space opera with certain expectations: a fast pace, exotic settings, mysterious aliens, badly behaved (and also much-abused) nobility, plenty of off-world adventure and intrigue.

30% of abused children become abusers themselves.

He has an attorney who is working pro bono, trying to get a trial, trying to get this sentence reduced, because Andy was a juvenile, he was being sexually abused and he was being badly bullied.