Sentence examples for bullies from inspiring English sources

The word "bullies" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone or a group of people who use their power to intimidate or hurt other people. For example, "My brother was bullied by a group of boys at school."

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bullies

verb

Third person singular of bully

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Women who have to put up with violent male bullies in their everyday life really do not wish to see Brown on posters, shaking his fists and threatening to strike the next person who stands in his way.

"The best thing it did was it finished football hooliganism - bullies and hooligans were finished overnight.

In a Commons adjournment debate about the pension schemes of both the Telegraph and another business owned by the Barclay brothers, the Littlewoods store chain, the Conservative MP called the twins both "hypocritical" and "bullies".

While some film-makers are responsible and even gifted historians, others are dunces, bullies or class clowns.

Carr explains, in compelling detail, how Melbourne's Zionist lobby pressures, romances, bullies and cajoles politicians to tow the most fundamentalist position over illegal Israeli colonies, Palestinian recognition at the UN, and even the language used to describe Israeli actions.

It just takes a figure like you to validate the bullies' point of view – and who knows how terrible the outcomes could be.

But if he can't stand up to a bunch of third-rate zealots led by a faded showbiz luvvie, what hope does he have against the mafia bullies who run the European Union?

If the Swedes succeed in finding and rescuing the submarine, the Russians will look like blundering bullies.

Well done me!" And isn't that what school bullies say and text to their victims, needlingly, sneeringly, to get them to cry? "You all right?

While the state has steadily enacted anti-terror legislation, which effectively reduces the liberties of the citizen, it has simultaneously dismantled all that legislation that was put in place to protect the citizen from Durkheim's local bullies.

It was Durkheim who wrote that the modern state was a necessary development to protect the citizen from local powerful bullies such as the exploitative landlord or employer.

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