BRUTALITY in a Sentence

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Not very dear, however, when you deserted him in his infancy, and left him to the brutality of a drunken grandmother.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRUTALITY
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brutality
 n.  quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness
Classic Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1  But there was a difference, for beneath Rhett's seeming lightness there was something malicious, almost sinister in its suave brutality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  He looked as if he were enjoying himself and when he spoke there was suave brutality in his voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  The brutality of the thrust gave her the sense of dizziness that follows on a physical blow.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4  She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to took upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVIII
5  Our system is educating them in barbarism and brutality.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Legree had trained them in savageness and brutality as systematically as he had his bull-dogs; and, by long practice in hardness and cruelty, brought their whole nature to about the same range of capacities.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  The woman, whom long practice with the victims of brutality had made familiar with many healing arts, went on to make many applications to Tom's wounds, by means of which he was soon somewhat relieved.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  The outrageous treatment of poor Tom had roused her still more; and she had followed Legree to the house, with no particular intention, but to upbraid him for his brutality.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  When he first bought her, she was, as she said, a woman delicately bred; and then he crushed her, without scruple, beneath the foot of his brutality.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  Not very dear, however, when you deserted him in his infancy, and left him to the brutality of a drunken grandmother.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
11  She was stunned by this unexpected piece of brutality, at the moment when she was glowing with a sort of pleasure beyond words, and a sort of love for him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  his incomprehensible brutality.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  After some time Cucumetto became the object of universal attention; the most extraordinary traits of ferocious daring and brutality were related of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
14  The bandit's laws are positive; a young girl belongs first to him who carries her off, then the rest draw lots for her, and she is abandoned to their brutality until death relieves her sufferings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
15  But when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worse than brutality itself.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V.
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  To write down his success simply to brutality is to oversimplify.
2  I stand before you today as the citizen of a country that has had nothing but disaster, war, brutality and deprivation against its people for so many years.
3  The brutality of the crime has appalled the public.
4  A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.
5  Finding evidence of police brutality in Kenya should not be too tricky; amateur footage of officers shooting suspected crooks in the back of the head is shared on social media.
6  The prisoners were brutalized and deprived of basic rights.
7  The trade unions suffered brutal repression after the coup.
8  He was the victim of a very brutal murder.
9  The carousel is the most brutal game, but have eternal chase each other distance.
10  All wars are brutal, but not all of them involve the mass killing of civilians.
11  This was a particularly brutal and cowardly attack.
12  The assault was premeditated and particularly brutal.
13  She has to face the brutal reality.
14  This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.
15  In many cases, a rich businessman reached the top by trampling on others in the most brutal way.