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How to use verbal abuse in a sentence

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Point made, he stops and waits a while and treats me to the inevitable tirade of verbal abuse aimed at the car in the meantime.
A campaign to stem the rising levels of violence and verbal abuse facing shopworkers has been backed by Leigh MP Andy Burnham.
Threats and public verbal abuse were common, as was persuading friends and family to join hate campaigns.
When firefighters arrive the yobbos start spitting at them, giving verbal abuse, climbing over the engine and throwing bricks at it.
I've left many times due to my husband's verbal abuse and poor treatment of my oldest daughter, his stepdaughter.
Penny works as a supermarket cashier and spends most of her home life trying to deflect obscene verbal abuse from her son, Rory, a couch potato.
In a three-month period, there were 33 disruptive incidents in total, most relating to having an offensive smell or verbal abuse.
How strong are you in the face of someone trying to assert authority over you through their verbal abuse?
We suffered a similar situation for six years during which time we had to put up with loud music, doors banging at all hours and verbal abuse.
As a driver you suffer verbal abuse on a regular basis from drunks, druggies and even schoolchildren.
Aggression turned outward often takes the forms of gossip, verbal abuse, or withholding affection or friendship.
I didn't feel up for more verbal abuse, but I still wondered where he was taking me.
A pensioner has been forced out of his home in Portlaoise after becoming the target for verbal abuse and threats from a neighbour.
Tenderness, a sign of vulnerability, is so feared that it is showered on women with verbal abuse and blows.
Attacks ranged from verbal abuse and being spat on to being pelted with stones and shot at with airguns.
The incidents include verbal abuse, slogans daubed on walls and physical assaults.
He gave Rafe a parting thump along with a touch more verbal abuse and left us alone.
You took exception to that in terms of verbal abuse and although that man posed no threat to you at all, you struck him two blows in the face.
If you were bad, you were subject to verbal abuse, spankings, or you may not have been picked up at all.
We've seen serious increases in levels of indiscipline, from low-level disruption and verbal abuse to physical assaults on teachers.
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He handed down the jail sentences after hearing how the Cartwrights had unleashed a tirade of physical and verbal abuse at railway staff and police.
Last night United vowed to fight their player's corner, hinting the Turkish-born striker had been the victim of verbal abuse and rough-house treatment.
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