How to Use violent in a Sentence

violent

adjective

• The city has experienced an increase in violent crime in the past year.
• She suffered a violent death in a car accident.
• The patient suddenly became violent and had to be restrained.
• The final scene was extremely violent.
• The peaceful protest suddenly turned violent.
• They witnessed a violent struggle between police and protesters.
• He's not a particularly violent person.
• By the end of the year, though, violent crime had picked back up.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• And violent and sexy and weird.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
• The violent shaking and cold was so bad that.
  — Bill Shaber, Outdoor Life, 22 Oct. 2025
• None, their lawyers told the Times, had a record of violent crime.
  — Phil Elliott, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
• Wednesday night was one of the most violent yet.
  — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
• Jheck could grow vacant, and was prone to violent rages.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• In the first three weeks, violent crime dropped by about 10%.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
• People on the ground do not trust that anyone will pay for these violent crimes.
  — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
• The city is not alone in seeing that summer violent crime uptick.
  — Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
• Once again, the debate in the book is not over whether or not people should be violent.
  — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• Such attacks have helped make health care one of the nation’s most violent fields.
  — Rebecca Boone, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Such attacks have helped make health care one of the nation's most violent fields.
  — Time, 7 Aug. 2023
• Adults, few of them with a violent criminal record, were hit first.
  — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
• The people yearn for love centered around a violent, icy sport.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 26 May 2026
• This story is set in a gruesome, violent, vile world.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026
• The protests were met with violent crackdowns by Khamenei.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
• Even in this milieu, Tate’s violent rhetoric stands out.
  — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• Even Vera isn't scary, in a violent sense.
  — Katie Grant, Parents, 24 Sep. 2025
• Hopefully, those are the death throes of the violent regime.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
• There’s a violent card game called Shithead, which has a swear word, so the kids love it.
  — Alex Horne, Vulture, 19 June 2026
• Strangely, the team found that the cooler the world was, the faster and more violent its winds were.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 June 2026
• That story is one that paints him as a survivor of a violent partner.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 9 Mar. 2023
• Crime is down 10% and, across our city, violent crime is down 21%.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025