Sentence examples for give a violent from inspiring English sources

"We wanted to give a violent shock to the Italian system," he told me.

In the ninth series Metro's Lewis Bazley believed that Lucas "continues to give a violent, powder-keg edge to proceedings – thank heaven for small mercies as his continual scowl never convinces in comparison with his predecessors Matthew McFadyen and Rupert Penry-Jones".

I slowly raised my sluggish arms, moving them up against the unexpectedly fierce resistance of the water, and then arced them back down again as I gave a violent scissor kick.

Nearby an inexplicably touching video by Melodie Mousset gives a violent subject — stoning — a happy ending through the use of a kind of reverse pantomime: the artist is shown with stones held to her head by elastic bands while white-gloved hands appear and cut them off, one by one.

What bird was honoured in a book by JA Baker? 2. Who was the notorious 18th-century English bookseller given a violent emetic by a vengeful Alexander Pope? 3. Who said: "A wall and a chair are a great deal"? 1. "In the first room there is a birth, in another a death, in a third a sordid drinking-bout, and the detective and the Bible-reader cross upon the stairs".

The baby pram was given a violent push, knocking Casper's face hard against a wall.

During the Conscription Referendums in 1916 and 1917, drill sergeants were given a violent greeting in Fitzroy and South Melbourne.

And a Feavour which gives a violent Shock to the very Life of my dear pretty Jerusha.

Petke was given a red card for violent conduct, forcing the MetroStars to play most of the rest of the game a man down until the Burn's Jorge Rodriguez was ejected in the 81st minute.

And as we showed this year, we won't give a platform to violent conspiracy theorists on the App Store.

I already love the place, if only because it would give Nigel Farage a violent dose of the vapours.