How to Use brutalize in a Sentence

brutalize

verb

• The prisoners claimed to have been brutalized by their captors.
• Amiri Baraka was arrested the night after Smith, for illegally possessing weapons, and he was brutalized, too.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• Then came the horrors of the Days of June, when the poor and the radical took to the streets, their protests brutalized by the militia.
  — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• In which she was brutalized, stripped naked, and made to walk around with a look of misery on her face?
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2018
• She was brutalized and mocked by many in the media for daring to criticize the great Karolyi.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2018
• Scared for the victims and their families who were stalked and brutalized in the most vicious way.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
• Cities have been locked down and economies brutalized as governments try to prevent the spread.
  — Anna Edney, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• And the middle of Seattle’s line was just brutalized by Aaron Donald, who had three sacks.
  — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2017
• Bryant and Milam then took Till’s brutalized body, wrapped a gin fan around the teen’s neck and sunk his body in a local river.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 5 Sep. 2017
• Jack of all trades The Titans have been brutalized by tight ends all season – both great and middling alike.
  — John Holler, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 1 Dec. 2019
• Weeks later, Koenig’s brutalized body would be found in pieces, weighed down at the bottom of ice-cold Matanuska Lake.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• After a few kickouts, Lesnar got the upper hand and brutalized Rollins.
  — Aaron Oster, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• John Lewis, who walked across a bridge knowing that there were police waiting to brutalize him on the other side.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• They were greeted as usurpers of jobs and, in the West, then still a lawless frontier, many were brutalized and massacred.
  — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Being raped hadn’t just stripped Sandi of her sense of control — she’d been held captive, brutalized and made to fear for her life.
  — cleveland.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• In 2012, a woman was abducted and brutalized on a moving bus in New Delhi by a gang of young men.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• Who is going to make the argument that this poor, abused and brutalized girl wouldn't have been safer in U.S. detention than with a rapist?
  — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• My respect is instead for those who died and were brutalized at his command.
  — Evan Mawarire, Time, 6 Sep. 2019
• There are poor and unhoused, and people brutalized or killed by police.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2023
• Ramón has seized power and is now starving and brutalizing the people.
  — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
• The attack came four years after Mason brutalized Fraser in an attack that saw him serve less than a year in prison.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2019
• The one who was playing peacefully in the streets, only to be arrested and brutalized.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017
• Told they’d be brutalized by the conquering forces, mothers jumped from cliffs with their infants.
  — Michael Judge, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• The First World War did have this brutalizing effect on public life right across Europe.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
• Black people are still being brutalized and murdered by the police.
  — Gayle Fleming, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
• Many Americans were happy to see the Nazis and the Communists brutalize each other.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The two men in custody may be able to shed light on what happened to Kayla Mueller, a young aid worker al-Baghdadi had captured and brutalized.
  — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2019
• Outfit your feet properly If your toes and feet tend to feel brutalized after a long downward scramble, your footwear might be to blame.
  — Alisha McDarris, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• The Bolsheviks had plans to brutalize their opponents from the outset.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2017
• Now that the Russian brigade has a reputation for brutalizing prisoners, any Ukrainian troops the brigade overruns are likely to fight to the death.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024