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.
• The game got off to a brutal start for UConn, and continued to get worse.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2022
• But, from a personal family point of view, it's been, yeah, it's been brutal.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
• Extraction 2 picks up after the events of the first film, with Rake having survived that brutal fall off a bridge.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2022
• Its return brought a new cast of characters competing against one another in the deadly games with a big cash prize and brutal twists.
  — Esther Kang, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
• Both sides have poured troops, tanks and artillery into the city, where brutal trench warfare has drawn comparisons to World War I.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
• People had no recourse during the brutal violence of that era, given the state’s total control of the country’s resources and narrative.
  — Peidong Sun, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2024
• On Day 5, state troopers and prison authorities retook the prison in a brutal assault, leaving 43 inmates and hostages dead.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2022
• Amorim acted on 33 minutes in what became a brutal, surreal spectacle.
  — Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
• By Wednesday afternoon, snow and brutal cold will slam Denver to Minneapolis.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2022
• But the brutal, 10-month siege of Bakhmut spares no one and nothing.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Gilmore came of age in a time where comedies did not have to be so brutal.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• But her life took a dark turn with a brutal assault at home.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• In the face of a brutal crackdown by the regime, protests spread like wildfire in the following weeks.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• There are many brutal deaths There are countless deaths in the film, and many are quite intense.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• Playing in the brutal Big East had prepared the Huskies well for this moment.
  — John Marshall, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
• The largest movement of peoples across the seas occurred by brutal force, through the Atlantic slave trade.
  — TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
• Smith scored again against the Pride despite brutal heat and humidity, and a loss for the Thorns.
  — oregonlive, 15 June 2023
• Justin started out fine until he was stopped on a brutal non-call.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• Melany was born along the brutal migration route north.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 May 2023
• The country and much of the world experienced a brutal heat wave last summer.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Tyson was known for his brutal knockouts, as his first 19 fights ended early — 12 in the first round.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
• At the top of the episode, the 13-year-old was asked by Sigler what it’s been like since her mom began to feel the sometimes brutal impact of the disorder.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024
• The resulting footage, which aired on the news, captured the N.Y.P.D.’s brutal tactics for suppressing the protest.
  — Miss Rosen, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• Shame, anger and distress caused by months of brutal extortion are transformed into the need to share the process.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
• The city is close to Bakhmut, which Russia captured in May after months of brutal fighting.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025