bullies

Example Sentences

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Unified could have — or should have — done more to protect her from campus bullies.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The severity of seemingly mundane, everyday anxieties — school bullies, the prom, graduation, obnoxious Cher-obsessed college roommates — is on par with demons trying to hasten the apocalypse.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

And by that I mean find the right fit, scroll on past the “bored blowhards,” as one traveler described some group members to me, and dodge the occasional bullies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

He said having a negative perception of XL bullies was "mad to me" and insisted poodles were "more aggressive".

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

He looked like any hitchhiker you might see on an American highway—nothing like the little runty boy I used to defend from bullies at Yancy Academy.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan