Example Sentences

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"We're rising up again this time, nonviolently raising our voices to declare: No kings."

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

How will nations and other groups resolve conflicts nonviolently?

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2022

NAMI’s Offerle said the “excited delirium” term demonstrates a one-size-fits-all approach by law enforcement and it discounts nuanced differences among mental illnesses which, if understood, could help to de-escalate a situation nonviolently.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2020

In case you’ve long forgotten, that was the day when East and West Germans began nonviolently dismantling the Berlin Wall, an entirely unpredicted, almost unimaginable ending to the long-entrenched Cold War.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2019

But Milo was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller