How to Use abused in a Sentence

abused

adjective
  • Rental cars are the fastest and most abused cars on the road.
    — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 14 May 2020
  • Shelters aren’t just full of abused or difficult dogs.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The case shows that more needs to be done to protect abused children, Roth said.
    — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2017
  • The words landed like those of an abuser telling the abused that his blows are leveled out of love.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • Is there a more abused word in our language, in this barely literate age?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Their two youngest children were sent to a home for abused and neglected children.
    — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Spurred by an emergency call from an abused woman, Lenker claws her way to the truth.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • Redford played a rodeo cowboy turned cereal pitchman who goes on the run with an abused horse.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Peyton played the younger version of an abused woman who was forced to make child pornography.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 13 Oct. 2022
  • And Kate Rose Reynolds plays multiple roles, from an abused maid to a king.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Connie is an abused and spoiled person, and that’s a rare combination.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Two local service groups have been working for 20 years to help abused women start new lives.
    — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Today words are abused and truth has become so debased that no one believes anything anymore.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 21 June 2020
  • The paper trails aren’t being made, but the bodies of abused women are telling the real story.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Makenzie Nevarez, an abused baby girl who was brain dead six months after she was born, will never take her first step.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The ear is at once a clue and a harbinger that leads him to an abused woman, Dorothy (Rossellini).
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The children who died Saturday were in a van for a youth home for abused or neglected children.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2021
  • The clip takes viewers on the journey as an abused woman finds the strength to leave a damaging relationship.
    — Cindy Watts, PEOPLE.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The actor said that Heard abused drugs and often violently attacked him.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The program offers volunteers who are trained to speak on behalf of abused and neglected children in court.
    — Mackenzie Brower, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2021
  • An abused dog is fighting for a second chance at life after he was found with a bullet wound in his head in Youngstown, Ohio.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
  • That the abused can become the abuser is not a revelation, but the way this story plays out is stranger and less straightforward than that.
    — Melinda Henneberger, kansascity, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Much ends up in Lake Okeechobee, a place considered by many the watery but much abused heart of the Everglades.
    — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
  • Heartbroken to hear about Zainab - a 7 year old child abused and brutally killed in Kasur, Pakistan.
    — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The children who died Saturday were in a van for a youth home for abused or neglected children, the AP reported.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 21 June 2021
  • Le Chateau de Chien is a 10-acre Chesterton farm that's home to a sanctuary for abused, handicapped and senior dogs.
    — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2019
  • While the new law and the shelters are breakthroughs, the next challenge is to broaden awareness of the changes and to get more abused women to make use of the new institutions and measures to protect them.
    — Lilia Blaise, New York Times, 12 May 2018
  • Seven years later, Yankee — once emaciated and abused — is a strapping and beloved 110-pound house pet who can read Rhodes like a book.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2022
  • This trashy horror-thriller centers on an abused boy (Max Thieriot) who grows up to wreak havoc on a suburban town and the teenager (Lawrence) who cares about him.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
  • More than two dozen abused animals were removed from a Brooklyn apartment, where they were cramped in cages, many covered with urine and feces, officials said Friday.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026

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