How to Use anti-violence in a Sentence

anti-violence

adjective
  • My goal was to use anti-violence music to raise money for shooting victims and paying for funeral cost.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Their proposal would embed power among faith leaders and anti-violence activists to steer the work.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • If his anti-violence prevention work from another city is shown to be effective and helps save lives, then that’s what matters.
    — Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Texas' gun laws have long come under scrutiny from gun reform groups and anti-violence activists who argue that too many loopholes put firearms in the wrong hands.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • Saturday’s hour-long event was the fourth such anti-violence vigil, which organizers described as a form of peaceful prayer.
    — Laura Turbay, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The groups will not be providing antidrug and anti-violence information as part of the exhibit.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • These psych meds have specific anti-violence properties.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Luke Chase was an early member of the anti-violence coalition in Portland, where he's lived for the past eight years with his wife and four children.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2024
  • At the hospital, anti-violence workers waited outside for the boys’ relatives to offer them services for victims of crime.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Pannell noted then that although there are many anti-violence programs in the district, most residents are not attending or are being touched by those efforts.
    — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Workers from a local anti-violence organization also fanned out on the block, knocking on doors and looking for witnesses.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2024
  • In the aftermath of the tragedy, the city’s flagship anti-violence program Safe Streets ramped up its work in the area, and officials say the efforts have paid off.
    — Lea Skene, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In the weeks since his death, anti-violence advocates organized a vigil calling for a number of reforms, including the creation of a civilian review board.
    — Mike Catalini, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Holzer has created public signage and projections for anti-gun, anti-violence and get-out-the-vote drives since the mid 1980s.
    — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • But while the anti-violence work all but ground to a halt, arrests made through the program ebbed only slightly, according to records obtained by The Chronicle.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Moreover, the fan who threw the objects at Courtois will be banned for life and the club is working alongside the anti-violence commission to identify and ban the fans who did monkey chants in the stands.
    — Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Rush plans to offer his backing at an event on the city’s South Side that will include an anti-violence march, according to a spokeswoman for the Vallas campaign.
    — Natasha Korecki, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Our historical consultant, Nikita Shepherd, has been working on that with input from the anti-violence project.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 16 July 2023
  • The In Between singer has been vocal in her support of a ceasefire in Gaza, sharing anti-violence messaging across her social media.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Wynn was featured in a 2020 OAG profile highlighting his anti-violence work.
    — 7news Wjla, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The ordinance simply pushes social media companies to enforce anti-violence rules that are already a part of their guidelines, Hall argued.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The shooting occurred shortly after her father purchased ice cream for her, according to anti-violence activist Andrew Holmes.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Now in its second year, the office has worked on securing funding and distributing it to the network of nonprofits that oversees the city’s gang intervention and anti-violence programs.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • After all, if leaders’ rhetoric was the only thing that mattered, then Democrats’ anti-violence messaging ought to have diminished right-wing extremists’ threat perception.
    — Lilliana Mason, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2024
  • As someone who spent 24 years in prison on a murder conviction and became an anti-violence advocate, Hunt said addressing root causes of behavior is the way to change it.
    — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Clinton Noble is a case manager at Helper Foundation, a youth anti-violence nonprofit that helped found the holiday.
    — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
  • The vaunted anti-violence unit launched in November 2021 when the city’s murder rate was soaring and the community was calling for action.
    — Michael Kosnar, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In the short-term, the office is working with nonprofits to oversee the city’s gang intervention and anti-violence programs, as well as manage the expansion of unarmed teams that respond to emergency calls.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • Oakland officials had gathered on Monday to praise the city’s Ceasefire anti-violence strategy amid a major drop in homicides, yielding the lowest number in five years.
    — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Neighbors later placed candles outside the building in Lopez’s memory, and a local anti-violence group visited to offer support to residents, per the outlet.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025

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