Sentence examples for the abusing 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.
In "Evergreen," shot mostly in Mineola, Rolando Sanchez, the writer and director, tells a fictional story of spousal abuse in just 20 minutes, including flashbacks to the abusing husband's abysmal childhood.
Annie Ryan's adaptation of Eimear McBride's many times rejected bestselling novel makes clear not only the lineaments of the brutal story – the abusing uncle, the impaired and bullied brother, the neglectful mother – but also its dynamic.
Barr could argue that he's been consistent by rounding and turning on the institutions he used to be a part of, that he's against abuse of power no matter what party is doing the abusing.
Every acquaintance offender starts from being a "stranger" and then builds the abusing relation.
Substance abuse among nurses was recognized by nurse leaders and professional nursing organizations as a growing threat to patient safety and to the health of the abusing nurse more than 30 years ago.
For example, Hartley offers a fascinating, detailed account of how the spontaneous gesture by which a frightened, abused child raises his hand to ward off a blow becomes, through a series of such transferences, the blow the abusing adult directs in anger at a helpless child (OM 1, prop. 97).
The abused become the abusers.
The abuse seemed unmentionable.
The abuse lasted three years.
