7 sentences with 'abuse'
Example sentences and phrases with the word abuse and other words derived from it.
• « He was gentle and modest; he did not abuse his rank; he treated his father's associates with respect, and no one disliked Mr. Edsel. »
• « Much of the history of the Spanish conquest is one of abuse of the native peoples of the Americas. »
• « Some of that abuse arose from the crusading tradition, but some of it also arose from the discomfort many of the Spanish felt at discovering people who had obviously never been in contact with the Christian world. »
• « Out of this context, of widespread corruption and the rather flagrant abuse of the notion of spiritual salvation through the Church, came Martin Luther. »
• « In one of the greatest crimes of the war, Turkish forces drove hundreds of thousands of Armenians from their homes across deserts to die of abuse, exhaustion, hunger and thirst when they were not slaughtered on the spot. »
• « An agonist drug binds to the receptor, producing a feeling of satisfaction but with less capacity for abuse, and without consequences for the addict's physical health. »
• « According to some experts, all aspects of human activity are governed by neurotransmitters, whose activity is genetically determined and can only be altered by accidents that damage the transmission system or by the abuse of drugs or psychotropic medication. »