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Example sentences for "maltreated"

Lexicographically close words:
malt; malted; malting; maltose; maltreat; maltreating; maltreatment; maltreats; maltster; maltsters
  1. This person was brought in, tied and bound like a criminal; they hustled him and maltreated him.

  2. Such was his dislike of their mother, on account of a slight deformity, that for four or five years he shamefully maltreated her, and at last shut her up in this dungeon-keep, allowing her daily the most meagre diet possible.

  3. But that being in power in the reign of the Thirty I maltreated many of the citizens?

  4. And Theotimus, taking the fortified place, first maltreated the youth and finally bound him and exacted a ransom for him.

  5. Telemachus goes to the town, and is followed by Eumæus and Ulysses, who is maltreated by the suitors.

  6. Telemachus goes to the town, and is followed by Eumæus and Ulysses, who is maltreated by the suitors Book xviii.

  7. A little Jew had a quarrel with a renowned Schlaeger, or duellist, of great stature, who had maltreated the little Hebrew.

  8. As he had never maltreated the natives, the inhabitants, both men and women, gladly brought him gifts, displaying no fear.

  9. The Methodist body had determined to discipline Mazarine, to eject him from their communion, because he had raised a whip against his wife; because he had maltreated Li Choo; and because he had used language unbecoming a Christian.

  10. Orlando remembered how Mazarine had horsewhipped and maltreated Li Choo.

  11. I remember once to have seen a poor hackney-coach horse maltreated by a coachman in London.

  12. He alighted, and accused the coachman of having wantonly maltreated and tortured his horse.

  13. In the busiest thoroughfare the hysterical person is set upon, robbed, maltreated and wounded, dragged to a distant place, and left to die.

  14. He declared that the murderer was after the pin, and that, failing to find it, he had maltreated Ursula Pell in a fit of rage at his failure.

  15. Are you going to suggest that she came down here by a concealed staircase, and maltreated her aunt in this ferocious manner?

  16. She had been brutally maltreated by a strong, angry person, before the final blow had killed her.

  17. The man's cries brought a crowd to the door who, seeing a fellow-gentile maltreated by a Jew, at once set upon the unfortunate shopkeeper and brutally assaulted him.

  18. Very often it came to pass that the missionaries were fain to give up their very garments in the effort to appease the peasants and shepherds who maltreated them.

  19. The authorities, however, thought it well to discipline him, and he was so repeatedly maltreated by them, and put in the dark hole, that his disease was greatly inflamed and the end hastened.

  20. Others are maltreated for a while, experimentally, or to "put the fear of God in their hearts," and afterward let alone.

  21. And if other mythologies were equally familiar, they would doubtless be maltreated with equal contempt.

  22. Witnesses dare not give testimony for fear of being maltreated or pillaged by the criminals.

  23. Etienne is attacked at the entrance of the court-room and nearly knocked down He is so maltreated that he is obliged to seek shelter in the guard-room.

  24. He offered himself to the Dutch and promised to serve them loyally against those of his nation who had maltreated him.

  25. Having been maltreated by the Governor of Campeche in whose service he had been, this mulatto in a fit of utter desperation threw himself into a boat and ventured into the sea, where he met with some Dutch ships on watch for a prize.

  26. Some are from people who abused him and maltreated him.

  27. Thereupon, many Jews forsook Rome, which had become so malicious towards them, and betook themselves to more tolerant states, but they were maltreated on the way by fanatical mobs.

  28. The debate was conducted with decency for one day, but on the second the hall of the Assembly was surrounded by a large and furious multitude, who insulted, beat, and maltreated all who were known to favour the measure under consideration.

  29. When they were, in similar circumstances, maltreated by the national guard.

  30. I have been torn from my bed, maltreated in the way you see, and dragged here like a felon by them, and for what I know not.

  31. There was even a slight expression of resentment in the manner in which the maltreated messenger bore the merry reception of his light-hearted master.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maltreated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.