How to Use remorseless in a Sentence

remorseless

adjective
  • As remorseless killers who had taken a life in cold blood, the two deserved the death penalty, in his view.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • Ordinary kids may become remorseless killers who shoot at cops and view second chances as a license to do more harm.
    — Jill Leovy, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • But the sheer joy of controlling one of nature’s most remorseless killers is strong enough here to pique our interest.
    — Kyle Orland and Sarah Leboeuf, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2020
  • The remorseless fact is that, despite Biden’s bravado, his coalition is clearly not ready to get that tough.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The tone, both wistful and remorseless, is that of a writer who allows the reader—and history—to be the judge.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • His beady-eyed blink, remorseless as ever, is also deeply hilarious.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Far from a remorseless monster, April is a charismatic and deeply lonely woman.
    — Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Working against her is the remorseless logic of party politics.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • Barry is a bad guy, of course, a very bad one, a (mostly) remorseless assassin, torturer and abuser.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But the remorseless logic of the Irish border is pushing Britain in that direction.
    — The Economist, 16 June 2018
  • Winners and losers alike were almost drearily well behaved, and the rhetoric, as custom demands, was one of remorseless uplift.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That hardly prevented him from running with a lead group of Kenyans for the first few miles, after which the marathon imposed its remorseless brand of agony.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • But the Iranian regime has a long and remorseless record, not only killing but maiming, notably with pellet blasts aimed into the eyes.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Twitter is rife with complaints about shoppers getting blindsided by them, hit in the ankle or shin by an errant cart and its remorseless driver.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The Denver public saw the young Black face of a remorseless criminal, someone who deserved a life sentence or worse.
    — Lynnell Hancock, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Trying to defend the seemingly remorseless killing of an unarmed suspect is another.
    — Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
  • In two games that hardly mattered, since Spurs were certain to finish second, Kane retained his ruthless and remorseless hunger.
    — Peter Berlin, SI.com, 21 May 2017
  • Remorseless brutality, just like fresh buns, turns out to be a necessary ingredient in business.
    — Jake Coyle, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Either be remorseless or enable others—squadron commanders, up-and-comers or former officers—to help take the load off the folks aboard the stricken vessel.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • New York City is full of remorseless individualists who nonetheless stick to some codes very rigidly.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
  • From Sandoval, there was a lot of crying, but very few actual tears, whereas Leviss seemed practically remorseless.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • When Danvers and Navarro arrived at the murder scene, a remorseless Wheeler was whistling a little ditty.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Luxury has risen to prominence thanks to remorseless future-looking innovation, never by recooking the creations of the past.
    — Stéphane Jg Girod, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In court documents, Minkler alleges that Burkhart was a greedy, remorseless peddler of corruption who infected those around him.
    — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2018
  • But here on the plains’ western edge, where the climate is unforgiving and the boom-and-bust farming economy is equally remorseless, swaths of prairie remain largely unbroken.
    — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Vito, seething and remorseless, grabs at control relentlessly; Frank, in no mood to fight, tries to cede it graciously, resulting in a lopsided tug-of-war.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The apparently remorseless runner has pooped on the sidewalk in front of the Budde family's home at least once a week for the past seven weeks, according to Budde.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • In a flat, remorseless manner, Jackson offered police his chronicle of murder, implicating himself in at least 10 killings.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
  • Co-authored with Yusuf Jah, the 225-page paperback is a readable and remorseless advertisement for Davis’ life as a drug dealer.
    — John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • After getting defeated in the Battle of Kyiv, the Russians are making incremental gains in the east based on remorseless artillery barrages.
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 June 2022

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