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

“Let’s shut it down nonviolently day after day after day till our rights are protected. I’ll be up here, much love to you all!”

From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2022

Jackson, one of the nation’s most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement, said the nation is in a “civilization crisis” with “battle lines drawn,” and urged activists to fight nonviolently for their rights.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2021

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