do violence
Example Sentences
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As professors Daniel Hemel and Eric Posner observe, construing the word “whoever” to mean “whoever except the president” would do violence to the English language.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2024
To quote a passage from this novel is to do violence to its tightly laced phrases of reconsideration.
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022
But a panel of five judges on the Court of Final Appeal unanimously overturned both the conviction and sentence on Friday, saying such a wide interpretation "would do violence to the language".
From Reuters • Jul. 15, 2022
The Maori scholar Te Pakaka Tawhai once wrote that the purpose of religious activity in his culture was “to seek to enter the domain of the superbeing and do violence with impunity.”
From New York Times • May 11, 2022
"Luckily, the present plans of the company don't call for much flume timber; I say 'luckily,' because I don't like to do violence to my convictions, when I'm happy enough to have any."
From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis
