How to Use ugliness in a Sentence

ugliness

noun
  • And as the book went on there was more and more ugliness.
    — Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There is ugliness and abuse in these scenes aboard the dark ship.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2024
  • With the news, there’s just so much ugliness thrown in your face.
    — Steve Morse, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • Splatter the ugliness with a splash of the hard stuff.
    — Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The tools have been used for ugliness more than they’ve been used for beauty.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 Aug. 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
  • The ugliness is a feature, not a bug.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There is a great ugliness on the land and also a great beauty.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • Both teams weeded out most of the ugliness to start the second half.
    — USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Voters here will welcome the end of the ugliness in eight days.
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The only moment that earns the full ugliness of its truth?
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There has never been any ugliness between any of us.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
  • There is an ugliness in this that’s difficult to write about.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Kee wrote the song about his wife and needing a getaway from the ugliness of day-do-day life.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The ugliness will be fueled by a deluge of campaign cash from both sides.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • The ugliness of the rhetoric surrounding her is a black mark on the country.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Most of the ugliness happens under the radar.
    — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Yet beneath the ugliness of that, the novel makes some hard to ignore points.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The real ugliness, in other words, starts now.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Baldy seemed all the more indomitable and gorgeous in the presence of man’s squat and belchy ugliness.
    — New York Times, 17 July 2019
  • Dills’s concession didn’t touch on any of the ugliness of the campaign.
    — Anna Staver, Cincinnati.com, 21 May 2020
  • But beyond the ugliness of the ideas, the frequency of them is a problem.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • The Cubs could use a little more ugliness and a little less beauty.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • Dispatches from across the city painted the ugliness of a week of mayhem.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • The lonely nights, the sneaking, the glow of the fridge, the raw ugliness and the pure exhaustion.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Despite the progress made, there's an audience that likes hearing this type of ugliness and the hosts know it.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • After the ugliness of the past day-and-a-half--Obama wears turban!
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 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

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