How to Use brutality in a Sentence
brutality
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And the brand is brutality, the brand is war crimes.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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Many of your movies and plays have shocking acts of brutality.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2022
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Some were there to speak out against police brutality as well.
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Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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What society in the world would not see its heart grow cold by such brutality?
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Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
14 June 2025
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The end of his life was marked by the same sort of brutality that plagued its beginnings.
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Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Putin is not a young man, and his brutality has earned him many enemies.
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Kevin D. Williamson,
National Review,
16 Mar. 2022
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He was known for his brutality, said to have bitten chunks out of his victims.
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Kelly McClure,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2021
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Only then are we forced to wrestle with the true brutality of war.
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Seema Jilani
august 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
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The first is to images of brutality, the second to an artist.
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Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Oct. 2022
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These events are only a prelude to the greater brutality to come.
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Jess Bergman,
The New Republic,
22 June 2022
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There is no place for hate or brutality in our society.
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Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
14 Dec. 2025
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But it’s lost on these boys, whose youth has been ground away by the drug trade’s meaningless brutality.
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Ew Staff,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 June 2026
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Gabber’s got this naive brutality to it.
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Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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Silence in the face of such brutalities and atrocious crimes is not an option.
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Hamid Kashani,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2026
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King came to Birmingham that spring to use the city’s own brutality against it.
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John Archibald,
Southern Living,
16 Mar. 2026
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But no matter the brutality, Allin was able to withstand it all.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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Capps is 59 now, and the brutality doesn’t seem to have affected him that much.
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Jim Clash,
Forbes,
16 Oct. 2024
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This ethos is not about vengeance, brutality, or impunity.
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Loree Sutton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Thousands staged a vigil in the wake of the death, calling for an end to police brutality.
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Time,
3 Oct. 2022
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Canny staging and dim lighting mask the worst of the brutality.
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Alissa Simon,
Variety,
21 Dec. 2021
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Some were there to speak out against police brutality in general.
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Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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There is a weird intimacy to hand-to-hand combat and the brutality of it.
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Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
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Don’t look for any signs of the older Heathcliff’s brutality here.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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There's a brutality behind those walls.
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Jim Axelrod,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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And yet, there is this streak — more than a streak — of brutality and of callousness and of cruelty.
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Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Dec. 2025
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The brutality of Daedalus’s revenge struck me.
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Seamus Sullivan
september 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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For good reason, a bygone era where the health and well-being of the players gave way to the sheer brutality of the game.
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Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2022
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The violence, the brutality, is happening right in front of us now, on the streets.
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Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Nov. 2022
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From the glamour of the show to the brutality of war, the film follows their lives -filled with loss, fear, as well as indomitable courage.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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This trial stuck more to the facts surrounding the murder and its brutality.
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Emiliana Betancourt,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2024
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