How to Use bullying in a Sentence

bullying

1 of 2 noun
  • The vessel will take him away from the bullying at school.
    Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Your bullying has been consistent over the past 10 years, so there's that.
    Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The lack of pushback from Collins and Trump’s bullying performance was a boon to his campaign team.
    Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2023
  • So fearing bullying, her mother and some of her sisters taught her how to read and write.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Franzese's first film role was in the 2001 crime drama Bully, a much darker take on high school bullying.
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Acts of hegemony and bullying are causing colossal harm to the world.
    Edith M. Lederer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But Robbins’s bullying wasn’t so far out of the ordinary.
    Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Using the first part of the webtoon, the series follows Dong-hyun, a high school junior, who barely survives his day-to-day bullying at school.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The studio is best known for Concrete Genie, a story about using street art to stand up to bullying.
    Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 6 May 2023
  • The district is required by state law to take steps to prevent bullying, Amlung said, and this lawsuit could be seen as one of those steps.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Phelps denies that, and her daughter says the issue wasn’t applause but a pattern of bullying.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Jo, who also briefly worked with the same team, confirmed that the general atmosphere was one of put-downs and bullying.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023
  • On the other hand, Comet the reindeer (voiced by Paul Kligman), never reforms his bullying ways.
    Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Some or all of the older children involved in the bullying incident attend Emerson, the Bulavas said.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2023
  • Between the threats of a school shooting and bullying, a parent’s mind is always swirling with worst-case scenarios.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • TikTok admitted the practice was not the right way to combat bullying and has since changed the policy.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The financial sector is one of the less surprising sources of this high-income bullying.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Their reasons for wanting a name change could include teasing or bullying, and shouldn’t be dismissed out-of-hand.
    Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 23 Mar. 2023
  • During the press tour for Perks, Miller talks school bullying and officially comes out.
    Vulture, 3 May 2023
  • The new musical movie is your guide for discussing cliques, bullying, and social media with them.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Abuses, bullying, and men preying on young women are issues, but the novel is not preachy.
    Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • In 2020, The New York Times published an exposé that alleged a culture of misogyny and bullying.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In her own earlier statement, Gomez had revealed that Hailey received death threats and asked fans to stop the bullying.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Parents report problems with bullying and kids struggling to attend class in the same building where they were shot at.
    Anna Clark, ProPublica, 14 May 2023
  • The topics to be discussed included nanomedicine, bullying and art.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Threats, fights and bullying are a more serious offense.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Francia Raisa is opening up about the impact online bullying is having on her.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
  • The bullying continued at the start of his eighth grade year, and he was bullied and punched in the head on Thursday, September 12, leading him to seek help from a science teacher at the school, the lawsuit states.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Musk spoke about his childhood bullying, and a dyslexic Branson dropped out of school at age 15 owing, in part, to academic struggles.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • Another accused the city of having a bullying problem and that the advertisement defeats the purpose of the campaign.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
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bullying

2 of 2 adjective
  • There will be two years of oversight of the district’s anti-bullying plan.
    NBC News, 5 June 2021
  • Wall was seen at the protest for George Floyd, and has also been a part of multiple anti-bullying campaigns.
    Shelby Stewart, Houston Chronicle, 24 June 2020
  • Brett Moore, a teacher in the nearby town of Walled Lake, said Myre took his son to football practice every day and was part of the anti-bullying campaign.
    Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The program is part of Cincinnati schools' anti-bullying effort.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2022
  • What the bill does The anti-bullying measure originally required schools to track the race of students who are harassed.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
  • With his tech passion, starting a business in the NFT space to raise anti-bullying awareness was a no-brainer for Guevara.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 July 2022
  • The website was shut down in 2021 and sold, with the domain being handed over to over to anti-bullying site Bullyville.com, founded by activist James McGibney.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Stow, who survived a traumatic brain injury and has spent the last decade spreading an anti-bullying message, threw out the first pitch, caught by Nakken.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2021
  • All video entries had to reflect the theme of anti-bullying and were open to individuals or teams.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Later, the local board voted to hire armed guards at the schools and to implement an anti-bullying program called Rachel’s Challenge.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Three years ago, MacKenzie Scott was an author, wife, and mother of four who'd started an anti-bullying group and, in the 90s, helped her husband launch Amazon.
    Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Bell raised awareness about suicide prevention and anti-bullying along the way.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
  • Dave Hause takes an unexpected approach to the anti-bullying song, writing not from the perspective of the victim, but as the bully himself.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Aside from her anti-bullying work, Lewinsky is also now focused on her work as a producer with an overall deal with 20th TV.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 7 Oct. 2021
  • McGibney then redirected the site to his anti-bullying resource BullyVille.com.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
  • The country was rebounding from a recession; divorce was on the rise; anti-bullying initiatives were as far in the future as the internet.
    Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • And perhaps that’s precisely where anti-bullying tech fits into the equation.
    WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The district will be working to improve its anti-bullying protocols during that time.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 9 June 2021
  • The complaint involved an anti-bullying lesson that a teacher within the district performed with their students.
    Fox News, 31 July 2022
  • Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, has said that research on users’ well-being led to investments in anti-bullying measures on Instagram.
    New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The settlement involves training and supervising staff and includes two years of oversight of its anti-bullying plan.
    Sharon Coolidge, USA TODAY, 6 June 2021
  • Ezra, 7, had an extra dimension to his campaign, advocating for an anti-bullying platform called Shake the Hate.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Educators should consult their state’s anti-bullying policies to get up to speed on how to handle harassment.
    Amaarah Decuir, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The 25-paragraph email said Theel had been dismissive of her and proposed a host of changes, including implementing a new anti-bullying curriculum.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2021
  • Launched in November 2017, the Love Myself campaign sends a powerful anti-bullying message, promoting self-love among children and young people across the world.
    Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2021
  • LG Electronics and the anti-bullying organization, Be Strong, offer the printable gift card and a happiness tips checklist, so that people can practice, learn, and share something the whole world needs a bit of right about now.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Tank, 31, has received local and national awards for being an advocate for Special Olympics and anti-bullying.
    John Marshall, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • An online module to aid conversations about anti-bias, anti-bullying, and hate.
    Linda Darling-Hammond, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The high school's anti-bullying coordinator told investigators that the school did not have records that the suspect had any history of being bullied.
    NBC News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Through the Franki Moscato Foundation, the 19-year-old uses her voice at school assemblies to spread messages about anti-bullying and suicide prevention.
    Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2021

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