In a sentence
Six example sentences with abused, each labelled with its topic.
The rescued donkeys arrived thin and abused, and the sanctuary spent a year teaching them that hands mean food.
Environment
Volunteers learn to approach an abused dog from the side and to let the animal close the last step itself.
Psychology
The film follows an abused circus elephant to a sanctuary, and the last scene is the animal walking into open grass.
Movies
Black Beauty narrates the life of an abused horse, and the novel helped change how Victorian cab drivers treated theirs.
Literature
The statute lets inspectors remove an abused animal on the spot, with the court hearing held within seven days.
Law
The first animal welfare society in 1824 sent inspectors to London markets to find abused cart horses and fine their owners.
History
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