CRUEL in a Sentence

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For CRUEL, below is one of 212 sentences:
A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRUEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cruel
 a.  (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Classic Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
1  That would be cruel to Ashley, but it would make him yearn for her all the more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  "Honey'll never catch anybody else if she doesn't marry Charlie," said Randa, cruel and secure in her own popularity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  They'd have to give in, and then this cruel war would be over.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  In the unholy crimson glow that bathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  Rhett made no reply but brought the tree limb down on the horse's back with a cruel force that made the animal leap forward.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Something was driving him, driving him with a cruel goad, but she did not understand what it was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  His voice still held a remnant of its wonted cool drawl but beneath the words she could feel violence fighting its way to the surface, violence as cruel as the crack of a whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
8  Scarlett dropped her head on the coverlet and a sob that would not rise caught her throat with a cruel hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
9  The very droop of his shoulders showed that his own self- castigation was more cruel than any she could give.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
10  Dorset had apparently shown marked interest in the girl, and this interest might be used to cruel advantage in his wife's struggle for rehabilitation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
11  She flushed and winced before citizens who a week ago had been amusing objects of study, and in their good-mornings she heard a cruel sniggering.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  She cried again that their youth was senile and cruel on the day when she overheard Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  The whole land was cruel, and a climbing cloud of slate-edged blackness dominated the sky.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  He hymned the old unhappy wars in which he had been Achilles and the mellifluous Nestor, yet gone his righteous ways unheeded by the cruel kings.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  His treatment of the animal was cruel.
2  But there are some truths too cruel, before the faces one has to announce them to, to be told.
3  I despise anyone who is cruel to animals.
4  The truth is cruel,but it can be loved,and it makes free those who have loved it.
5  The cruel master beat his slaves mercilessly with a whip.
6  He is, so to speak, a bit too cruel to his wife.
7  Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.
8  Don't tease him about his weight - it's cruel.
9  A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.
10  I overheard some cruel remarks about my husband.
11  It is plainly cruel to keep turtles as pets.
12  I can't stand people who are cruel to animals.
13  Life is cruel, she thought, with a sudden rush of anger.
14  His death was a cruel blow.
15  I overhear some cruel remarks about him.