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

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

Hospital-based violence intervention can only succeed when it’s closely linked with organizations working to do violence interruption and street outreach.

From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2022

But they make the admission grudgingly; and, in order to render ἀφιέναι as often as possible “leave,” they do violence to many a place of Scripture where some other word would have been more appropriate.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William