Example Sentences

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“This entire country has been bullying me just because I’m a proud, gay thief,” Yang’s Santos said during the sketch.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

Limbaugh, of course, has been bullying people verbally for years.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2012

Open your copies of The Old School Tie and begin studying a system of education that has been bullying and beloved, tyrannical and anarchic, rigorous and howlingly inept.

From Time Magazine Archive

“If Edie has been bullying you, this doesn’t excuse it, but it might help explain it. It might help you see that it’s got nothing to do with you.”

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Miss Cowdell has been bullying you for the silly old French?

From An Australian Lassie by Johnson, A.J. (Alfred J.)