How to Use brutality in a Sentence

brutality

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  • But Baum is too cautious a writer to let the brutality get out of hand.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Or, Kendrick Lamar speaking about police brutality, hurt and harm, in his videos and the like.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • And yet, for all the weight of its brutality and violence, the war in Ukraine was not even the single deadliest conflict in the world last year.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, huge demonstrations for racial justice and against police brutality rolled across the country and the world.
    — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In Hamad’s view, there is no need to regret the brutalities of October 7th.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The murder of George Floyd in 2020 spurred them to join the protest movement that sprang up nationwide against police brutality.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Like the rest of the world, Arab governments were caught off guard by the unprecedented scale and brutality of Hamas’s attack.
    — Ghaith Al-Omari, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In my community, the details of the acquittal mattered less than the brutality of the facts.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The coaches Gregg Popovich and Steve Kerr have given lengthy statements about the horrors of police brutality.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The brutality was immediately apparent, with her head split open by the force of the blows.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The militant group’s 2014 assault on the museum stunned the world with its brutality.
    — Dr. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • The brutality of the captures began to draw public outcry and a lawsuit to stop them in Washington state.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Not only that case, all of the people who have been a victim of police brutality, who have been killed by LMPD, that still haven't got justice.
    — The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Glazer juxtaposes the mundanity of their day-to-day with the brutalities of the camp next door.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The film also makes the point that the U.S. and much of the West may be apt to cast judgment on the brutality of the fleet, but American diners are among the primary consumers of seafood produced on these ships.
    — Ian Urbina, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Thousands of people took to the streets to protest, but the military cracked down with stunning brutality, killing hundreds of civilians across the country.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Skeeter’s story is central in the film, which highlights the cruelty and brutality waged against the maids by their female employers.
    — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The immediate catalyst has been the Israel-Hamas war, and not just for its brutality.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Dec. 2023
  • At her funeral, the marks of brutality were so severe that her coffin remained closed.
    — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • For years, the Israeli center has been moving right — a trend accelerated by the brutality of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The arduous process was largely prompted by the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and the subsequent protests against police brutality that broke out after the footage went viral.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2023
  • With Israeli and Hezbollah exchanging fire across the Lebanese border with growing frequency, the brutality of the Gaza fight could spark a wider conflict.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The devastating loss of both Israeli and Palestinian lives, and the ongoing brutality is heartbreaking and many of us feel shock, grief, fear, and anger.
    — Ellen Friedrichs, Parents, 14 Oct. 2023
  • His death sparked public outrage and protests, putting a spotlight on police brutality against people of color.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The scale and brutality of the Hamas attack early Saturday left Israel reeling.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Graver themes of antisemitism and brutality coalesced in Parade and Leopoldstadt, two of the night’s other big winners.
    — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • Hamas believes the attack, for all its brutality, put what had been viewed as a languishing Palestinian cause back at the center of the world political map.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Every part of his body is being pushed down with absolute brutality.
    — Sarah Rankin, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Not dissimilar to the book, the series’s tonal swings never quite settle (there’s also an off-screen suicide and on-screen police brutality).
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Fabrizio is wise, cutting, but ultimately forgiving, even as the Old World’s grandeur dissolves to dust and the genteel cruelties of the 19th century give way to the mass brutality of the 20th.
    — Amy Chua, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023

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