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Example sentences for "bullying"

Lexicographically close words:
bullocks; bullrushes; bulls; bullseye; bully; bulrush; bulrushes; buls; bulwark; bulwarke
  1. And yet he makes little of the practical difference between the England of railways and the England of coaches; in fact he hated the bullying coachmen so that he expressed nothing but gladness when they had disappeared from the road.

  2. If he saw a big boy bullying me, he wasted no words in useless remonstrances, but instead, off with his jacket and fought him at once.

  3. They listened calmly enough, and as the boy looked on it seemed to him that all the bullying did was to give the rough party of soldiers an excellent appetite.

  4. I don't know, though; I didn't come here as a servant, and he was awfully bullying and rude.

  5. If you have any more bullying to do, confine yourself to me, Percival.

  6. Sternsilver retired at once to the far end of the workroom, where he proceeded to relieve his outraged feeling by criticising Hillel Fatkin's work in excellent imitation of his employer's bullying manner.

  7. This is even more noticeable with ravine deer, whose herd districts appear to be smaller than those of antelope, and who generally require a lot of following up and bullying before they give a chance.

  8. Somebody was bullying somebody, and Martin interfered, to be confronted by Cheese-Face's blazing eyes.

  9. We are not so green as to put a broadsword and a brace of pistols into the hands of a bullying prisoner.

  10. He said this with the idea of bullying either the farmer or the persons within the room into opening the door, but Van Deelen remained sullen and motionless.

  11. Beveridge wheeled suddenly on him in asking it, and raised his voice with the idea of bullying him into a reply.

  12. Whatever bullying Sam suffered, he had his revenge in this--that he and no other man could exasperate his father to weakness.

  13. Well-meaning, is it, to come here bullying a young lady?

  14. When this was the case, some of the worst sort, as might have been expected, would fill up their leisure with bullying or mischief.

  15. Eric could not, and would not, brook his bullying with silence.

  16. Perhaps you'll just pay me this debt," he continued, changing his fawning manner into a bullying swagger.

  17. You know that you despise any one who tells a master, yet you allow this bullying to go on, and that, too, without any provocation.

  18. It is a far better and braver thing to bear bullying with such a mixture of spirit and good-humour, as in time to disarm it.

  19. Don't say anything to him about being queer last night, nor about me bullying him.

  20. Bigley Uggleston is talking again about going, and I am bullying him for it.

  21. Men and women of all ranks shrink with terror from subjecting themselves to the wanton insult and bullying misnamed cross-examination in our English courts.

  22. Do you mean to say--" Carmintel began, in a bullying tone.

  23. I command you," he said in a bullying tone.

  24. Emma hates Fred bullying her, so she might know I hate her bullying me.

  25. Speaking them is a sign of an indecent bullying will.

  26. The bullying of the refined, benevolent spiritual will is simply vitriol to the soul.

  27. Always this infernal self-conscious Madonna starving our living guts and bullying us to death with her love.

  28. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

  29. When he returned, the lawyer had fastened his collar and was nervously bullying his tie into place.

  30. Edward took every opportunity of bullying Baliol, and even ordered him to come all the way to Westminster to defend an action brought against him for money due from Alexander the Third, his greatgrandfather.

  31. Having brawled for some years against aristocracy, his purpose at length peeped out in his acceptance of a peerage for himself, and the man who had been continually bullying the Court, became its fawning favourite.

  32. Bullion was got from the Tower by bullying the people who had charge of it, and when no more good money was to be got, a proposition for coining four hundred thousand pounds' worth of bad was coolly suggested.

  33. The worst of it was that that bullying old Pumblechook, preyed upon by a devouring curiosity to be informed of all I had seen and heard, came gaping over in his chaise-cart at tea-time, to have the details divulged to him.

  34. And it was; he admitted it with many shrugs, being a conveniently weak person, whom one felt almost ashamed of bullying as the occasion demanded.

  35. Bullying and browbeating will not give you an advantage.

  36. McCann, shortstop and captain of the team, was a fighting Irishman with a peppery temper and a bullying disposition.

  37. In fact, it will make it very difficult for you to get along with Owen, for he thinks a lot of that disagreeable, bullying nephew of his.

  38. It was Joshua Owen, aided by his bullying nephew, Dan Jaggers, who had made this sudden, treacherous assault.

  39. Bullying is an offence much less pardonable than most men are guilty of.

  40. His energy at this moment was extraordinary, for he was very poor, his mother had a stroke of paralysis, his bureau was always bullying and interfering with him.

  41. The blundering and bullying policy of the Protector Somerset had driven the Scotch to renew their ancient alliance with France.

  42. The man was hat-less, and his strong almost scowling face was thrust forward with its habitual bullying look.

  43. What I shall do with you," said Quarle, with a bullying shake of his head at him, "will be to keep my eye on you.

  44. It's no use bullying me," he said, in an aggrieved fashion.

  45. You know perfectly well that the moment you get on the other side, if you do, you'll be jerking the cross off your collar and bullying some wretched soldier to give you his gun.

  46. His innate caution, his respect for law and, under his bullying exterior, a certain physical cowardice, made him slow to move in the direction Rudolph was urging.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bullying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abusive; bluff; blustering; boisterous; bravado; bustle; flurry; fluster; foreboding; frightening; fuss; imminent; intimidating; intimidation; lowering; menacing; minatory; noisy; ominous; overbearing; persecution; raging; rant; ranting; raving; rodomontade; rollicking; side; splutter; sputter; storming; swagger; swaggering; swashbuckling; terroristic; terrorizing; threatening; truculent; tumultuous