How to Use brutality in a Sentence

brutality

noun
  • The violence, the brutality, is happening right in front of us now, on the streets.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The colonies have earned a reputation for their brutality.
    Armani Syed, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Boudin filed charges against several officers in alleged cases of brutality.
    Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The brutality was immediately apparent, with her head split open by the force of the blows.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Tales of brutality, escape, survival, and grit are volleyed in their story-for-a-story pact.
    Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The militant group’s 2014 assault on the museum stunned the world with its brutality.
    Dr. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • In defiance of this mantra, Fox Solomon lets the self-portraits in her book starkly convey the brutality of aging.
    Christina Cacouris, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • And mendacity and brutality and remorseless destruction of people’s lives.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Join 18 others in the comments View Comments That could help Starship better survive the brutalities of reentry.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Oct. 2024

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