Sentence examples for were abusive from inspiring English sources

I think that he would have felt compassion not only for the children being abused but also for the parents who were abusive.

They were abusive.

"There were abusive text messages.

Her boyfriends, for the most part, were abusive.

He would tell her, she said, that her tears were "abusive".

Some of their husbands or boyfriends were supportive; some were abusive.

She said both were abusive to her, though not to her two younger brothers.

When Rocker finally emerged, the fans were noisier than they were abusive.

Herman Ouseley, the organisation's unpaid chairman, was personally sent around 350 emails he said were abusive.

Mr. McCarthy believes he acted properly and said the officers who arrested him were abusive.

It said: "My parents were abusive in every way imaginable − sexually, physically and emotionally.