Sentence examples for very abused from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, through the 1990s, the word got very abused, and everything served in a cocktail glass got called one".

There is a lot she can't say, for legal reasons, but she does observe that "when you come from a very abused background, if you overcome it, you become very controlling.

In the lively and graphic opening montage of the new documentary "Sweet Micky for President," a behind-the-scenes look at Haiti's 2010-2011 Presidential election and the rise of the entertainer turned President Michel Martelly, a newsman in stock film footage declares that "Haitians are a very abused people".

'Zeitgeist' is a very abused word, but it has a weight and importance, and it will be a major achievement if we can put together a set of work that successfully explores the ideas we are all cooking up at the moment".

The sound ranges from "a very abused hurdy-gurdy to heavy electronics" to "Morricone-esque baritone guitars".

His husband Davyd Whaley was a brilliant painter who had been very abused in his childhood for being gay.

These children are really abused".

This means they can be very easily abused and, of course, makes the abuse repellent.

But if you are poor, very young, abused and uneducated, you are nothing.

"There are hundreds and thousands of documented cases of women being very badly abused at home, often the victims of incest".

Also part of the pattern that led me on to the course of offending was that I came from a very seriously abused childhood, both sexually and physically.