Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: abusing
IPA transcription: [əbj'uzɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • Tubby showed his patience by abusing his son.
  • "Remember, if you please, that it is my leg you are abusing."
  • At last she went off, abusing me in a way that chilled my heart.
  • To think of it—that fellow, after my treatment of him—my cursing and abusing him since I came here!
  • I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it.
  • But, nevertheless, there would be some excitement in a farewell in which some mock affection might be displayed, and she would have an opportunity of abusing Mrs. Carbuncle.
  • When property is concentrated, society, abusing itself, polluted, so to speak, grows corrupt, wears itself out--how shall I express this horrible idea?--plunges into long-continued and fatal luxury.
  • Providing themselves with necessaries, they returned to Jamaica, from whence they set forth again to sea, committing greater robberies and cruelties than before; but especially abusing the poor Spaniards, who fell into their hands, with all sorts of cruelty.
  • He gesticulated and almost danced with excitement in front of the lovers. What the scene meant I could not imagine, but it seemed to me that Stapleton was abusing Sir Henry, who offered explanations, which became more angry as the other refused to accept them.