How to Use brutality in a Sentence

brutality

noun

• In one scenario, our species could emerge so transformed as to avoid entirely the brutality of human conduct.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
• Brooks was killed three weeks after George Floyd's death, reigniting a wave of protests in Atlanta calling for an end to racial inequity and police brutality.
  — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
• Her son, Kim Aris, auctioned off a piece of art that sold for more than $1 million — money that will go toward helping victims of the military’s brutality.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• Episode 3 of House of the Dragon is largely about brutality, and the manner in which various members of House Targaryen wield it.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 4 Sep. 2022
• The first is to images of brutality, the second to an artist.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• But Baum is too cautious a writer to let the brutality get out of hand.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• The 26-year-old had become one of the symbols, the human faces, of Hamas brutality.
  — ABC News, 9 June 2024
• 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
• Capps is 59 now, and the brutality doesn’t seem to have affected him that much.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• But as with so many moments in The Last of Us, the happiness is ripped from its source with a rush of brutality.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Feb. 2023
• The violence, the brutality, is happening right in front of us now, on the streets.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
• Thousands staged a vigil in the wake of the death, calling for an end to police brutality.
  — Time, 3 Oct. 2022
• From the opposite coast, the bruises and lunch-bucket brutality of the ’90s New York Knicks.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
• Galileo faces the brutality of the Church at a time when science and reason and decency were often made to heel at the foot of brute force.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
• This, of course, was the time in the aftermath of George Floyd and a lot of police brutality incidents.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• Instead, the brutality of what’s done to Reena is recounted through the viewpoints of the teens who were present in her last moments.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The beating and death of Nichols also sparked calls to end police brutality.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 15 Feb. 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
• Garcia said many of their neighbors have watched cases of police brutality, such as the killing of George Floyd, and are afraid to call the police.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• This trial stuck more to the facts surrounding the murder and its brutality.
  — Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Then came the murder of George Floyd and the ubiquitous protests against police brutality.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
• 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 Afghan commander was a key American ally — and his brutality may have cost the United States the war.
  — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Now imagine your own loved one trapped inside this den of brutality.
  — Ruha Benjamin, Time, 18 Oct. 2022
• The brutality was immediately apparent, with her head split open by the force of the blows.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024