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ill-treat sentence examples

  • Ill-treat a badger, or to interfere with a badger sett.
  • This makes it an offense to kill, injure, capture or cruelly ill-treat a badger, or to interfere with a badger sett.
  • Ill-treated the prisoners to make themselves appear even greater conquerors.
  • All of those interviewed by amnesty international described being tortured or otherwise ill-treated.
  • Ill-treat a child.
  • Their parents, too, do not ill-treat their children.
  • Ill-treating a smaller boy.
  • Ill-treated the girls, but he never had anything to do with them.
  • Ill-treated woman, and that was enough to rouse popular feeling.

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