"violent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mrs. Norton had a failed marriage with a violent husband.
- The poor woman who wants to divorce her violent husband needs a lawyer who will represent her without charge.
- After she divorced her violent, alcoholic husband, she got a job to support her family through daily life.
- Each woman had escaped a violent husband, but each knew he might worm back into her life at any time.
- Steve changes from unbelievably nice guy into violent, abusive husband in record time, even if these are among the film's most colorful and involving episodes.
- Vicki then starts scheming for Warren to kill her increasingly drunk and violent husband.
- The wife's use of a gun to kill her violent husband weighed heavily in the "difficult balancing exercise" which the Court had to perform.
- Kayako then crawls downstairs, desperate to escape her violent husband.
- An ill-tempered, sometimes violent husband and his despairing wife.
- Discussion question: Why do you think some battered women stay with their violent husbands?
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