Sentence examples for be abuse from inspiring English sources
verb
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority.
Another is that there will be abuse.
"But we do know that in some cases the trigger can be abuse in childhood.
In kindergarten -- it would be abuse now, but the teacher once taped his mouth shut to keep him quiet".
Out of some 40,000 reports received annually from the general public, a quarter turn out to be abuse, as defined by law.
Started by activist and Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, the campaign asked participants to dance in solidarity with the one billion women estimated to be abuse survivors.
But this would be abuse of a different and even darker kind, for it would amount to a grotesque misappropriation of state power.
Discretion will be abused.
There would surely be abuses.
It can be abused as well.
Shareholders' rights continue to be abused.
