increasingly violent

Frequency: 7.216.0 per million words

Describes violence that is growing in intensity or frequency over time.

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Examples (10)

  • The protests became increasingly violent as the night wore on.
  • He worried about the increasingly violent rhetoric in political discourse.
  • The weather patterns are becoming increasingly violent, causing widespread damage.
  • Reports indicated an increasingly violent conflict in the war-torn region.
  • Children exposed to certain media may exhibit increasingly violent behavior.
  • As the pressure mounted, her temper grew increasingly violent and unpredictable.
  • The gang's activities were observed to be increasingly violent in their turf wars.
  • There is a concern that some video games promote increasingly violent tendencies among players.
  • Despite efforts to de-escalate, the confrontation turned increasingly violent with physical altercations.
  • The animal, cornered and afraid, became increasingly violent in its desperate attempts to escape.