How to Use ugliness in a Sentence

ugliness

noun

• There is ugliness and abuse in these scenes aboard the dark ship.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2024
• But the ugliness of the world shows itself on this night.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
• The lonely nights, the sneaking, the glow of the fridge, the raw ugliness and the pure exhaustion.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• With the news, there’s just so much ugliness thrown in your face.
  — Steve Morse, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• And in regards to one big piece of that ugliness, the end is very much in sight.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• This is a film of chaos and conflicts, ugliness and joy.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
• Then, of course, came the ugliness of the 2016 offseason with Dwyane Wade.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 June 2021
• Both teams weeded out most of the ugliness to start the second half.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
• The ugliness of the rhetoric surrounding her is a black mark on the country.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 20 Jan. 2023
• Voters here will welcome the end of the ugliness in eight days.
  — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
• The tools have been used for ugliness more than they’ve been used for beauty.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 Aug. 2018
• The ugliness started on the first play of the game, as Carr was picked off on a deep ball that didn’t have quite enough zip on it.
  — Max Meyer, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• There is a great ugliness on the land and also a great beauty.
  — New York Times, 18 July 2022
• Fame brings out a lot of ugliness in people around you.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Nov. 2021
• But beyond the ugliness of the ideas, the frequency of them is a problem.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
• Baldy seemed all the more indomitable and gorgeous in the presence of man’s squat and belchy ugliness.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2019
• The ugliness of our prejudices and stereotypes adds to the painful news that floods out of Ukraine minute by minute.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
• After the ugliness of the past day-and-a-half--Obama wears turban!
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• To love sports is to grit your teeth and wait for the transcendent moments that make all the ugliness worth it.
  — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 23 July 2017
• Trading four of the better players on a team that’s on a 73-win pace can lead to a lot of ugliness.
  — Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• The ugliness of the divide played out after Green first called for Trump to be impeached in a speech last month.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
• Yet beneath the ugliness of that, the novel makes some hard to ignore points.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
• Dills’s concession didn’t touch on any of the ugliness of the campaign.
  — Anna Staver, Cincinnati.com, 21 May 2020
• There’s beauty in the struggle and ugliness in the success.
  — Jeffrey Bernstein, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
• The row with Bellinger only heightened the game's ugliness.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• And don’t species like starlings buoy us with their resilience in the face of the sometimes absurd ugliness of a city?
  — Julia M. Zichello, Scientific American, 3 May 2021
• The thing is, all of this — the whataboutism, the ugliness, the purity tests — have worked for Republicans.
  — Peter St. Onge - Associate Editor, Observer Editorial Board, charlotteobserver, 2 May 2018
• The ugliness of the virus was compounded by the painful fact that Treibitz was dying alone.
  — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2020
• This ugliness and sense of intimidation is a Trump era thing.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
• Bitter and endless fights over Louie have dragged the long-running series into new depths of ugliness, leaving its future uncertain.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024