Sentence examples for there was violent from inspiring English sources

There was violent activity at Police Headquarters.

"How about, like, One Direction?" There was violent yelling, pro and con.

I was 15 years old last time there was violent unrest on the scale witnessed in Tottenham over this weekend.

At first sight, the landscape seems fixed and timeless, but you soon sense that there was violent change in the not so distant past.

"Several minutes before we were supposed to arrive in Wenzhou I heard a bang, and then there was violent shaking," she said by telephone from a hospital in Wenzhou, where she was treated for injuries.

And if she misbehaved, there was violent retribution – on one occasion, she was punched in the face by Jak and dragged across the floor by the roof of her mouth.

I mean, have there been violent episodes in your past?

"I'm not disputing there are violent women, but let's get back to those statistics.

Life elsewhere appeared calm, and one could easily have passed the day without realizing there were violent clashes elsewhere.

In 2008, there were violent protests in the city of Lhasa which quickly spread across the region.

Over the next three months there were violent clashes, with local youths throwing stones at police.