How to Use brutal in a Sentence
brutal
adjective
- The traffic was brutal on the way to work.
- The movie is a brutal depiction of the war.
- I had a brutal headache this morning.
- The writer describes the dangers of drugs with brutal honesty.
- Sailors sometimes faced brutal punishments like whipping.
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Gilmore came of age in a time where comedies did not have to be so brutal.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli,
Rolling Stone,
25 Oct. 2023
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But her life took a dark turn with a brutal assault at home.
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Anna Marie De La Fuente,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2024
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In the face of a brutal crackdown by the regime, protests spread like wildfire in the following weeks.
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Adam Pourahmadi,
CNN,
16 Sep. 2023
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There are many brutal deaths There are countless deaths in the film, and many are quite intense.
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Kelsie Gibson,
Peoplemag,
17 Nov. 2023
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The largest movement of peoples across the seas occurred by brutal force, through the Atlantic slave trade.
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TIME,
18 Mar. 2024
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Justin started out fine until he was stopped on a brutal non-call.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Nov. 2023
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The country and much of the world experienced a brutal heat wave last summer.
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Washington Post Staff,
Washington Post,
10 July 2023
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The resulting footage, which aired on the news, captured the N.Y.P.D.’s brutal tactics for suppressing the protest.
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Miss Rosen,
The New Yorker,
8 July 2023
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Shame, anger and distress caused by months of brutal extortion are transformed into the need to share the process.
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2024
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The city is close to Bakhmut, which Russia captured in May after months of brutal fighting.
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Miriam Berger,
Washington Post,
6 Sep. 2023
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Butler had eight, Adebayo two in that brutal first half.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
11 Apr. 2024
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This round of layoffs come after a brutal 14 months in the video game industry.
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Kalhan Rosenblatt,
NBC News,
27 Feb. 2024
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Although the loss was a brutal way to start the day, the organization's work remained far from over.
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Tony Garcia,
Detroit Free Press,
9 July 2023
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In the Southeast, the heat index will be brutal this weekend with highs feeling like the 100s from Florida to Texas.
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Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
8 July 2023
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For Quicke, Rhonda's House was a lifesaver during a brutal 2020.
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Cheryl Platzman Weinstock,
CBS News,
10 July 2023
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Any further delay will cost the lives of countless Ukrainians and prolong this brutal war.
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Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
Arkansas Online,
7 July 2023
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Which makes what’s happening now in Liberty City all the more brutal.
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Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2024
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Major kudos to Dylan Hernández’s brutal honesty about the state of the Angels.
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Los Angeles Times,
18 Nov. 2023
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Smith's one-year-old son was also in the apartment during the alleged brutal attack but was unharmed.
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Chris Eberhart,
Fox News,
8 July 2023
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It's already been 17 days since the start of this brutal, continuous attack on Gaza Strip.
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Carson Terbush,
Washington Post,
17 Nov. 2023
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The Kremlin’s brutal war in Ukraine, now in its third horrific year, has cost Russians dearly.
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Matthew Chance,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2024
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This is the story of Juno, a sharp-witted Irish girl in the 1980s who’s too defiant to find peace in her dysfunctional home or her brutal Catholic school.
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Washington Post Staff,
Washington Post,
21 July 2023
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That got better as the team improved, but man, those second-half collapses were brutal.
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The Arizona Republic,
9 Jan. 2024
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The new season begins where the first season left off: a brutal suicide attempt and the ensuing fallout.
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TIME,
27 Dec. 2023
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The brutal murder of a supposed witch, Andrés Netor, triggers a unique legal process.
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Anna Marie De La Fuente,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2023
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