How to Use brutality in a Sentence

brutality

noun

• The first is to images of brutality, the second to an artist.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• 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.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
• For good reason, a bygone era where the health and well-being of the players gave way to the sheer brutality of the game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• But Baum is too cautious a writer to let the brutality get out of hand.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• The 26-year-old had become one of the symbols, the human faces, of Hamas brutality.
  — ABC News, 9 June 2024
• Or, Kendrick Lamar speaking about police brutality, hurt and harm, in his videos and the like.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Capps is 59 now, and the brutality doesn’t seem to have affected him that much.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• But as with so many moments in The Last of Us, the happiness is ripped from its source with a rush of brutality.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Feb. 2023
• These events are only a prelude to the greater brutality to come.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
• Many of your movies and plays have shocking acts of brutality.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• Daines said his visit revealed the brutality of Putin's troops, and that some of the worst scenes were in Bucha, about 20 miles outside Kyiv.
  — Fox News, 19 Apr. 2022
• The violence, the brutality, is happening right in front of us now, on the streets.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
• Thousands staged a vigil in the wake of the death, calling for an end to police brutality.
  — Time, 3 Oct. 2022
• From the opposite coast, the bruises and lunch-bucket brutality of the ’90s New York Knicks.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
• Galileo faces the brutality of the Church at a time when science and reason and decency were often made to heel at the foot of brute force.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
• This, of course, was the time in the aftermath of George Floyd and a lot of police brutality incidents.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• Instead, the brutality of what’s done to Reena is recounted through the viewpoints of the teens who were present in her last moments.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
• There's no shortage of brutality in the book or the film, but the movie doesn't explicitly show the beatings, abuse or racist acts.
  — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
• As with Nirvana and Rage Against the Machine, jocks and assholes and bullies were drawn to the brutality of the music and missed the point of the lyrics completely.
  — Ian Cohen, SPIN, 24 Feb. 2022
• But the sheer brutality of the assault has turned the city decisively against the Kremlin.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
• And yet, for all the weight of its brutality and violence, the war in Ukraine was not even the single deadliest conflict in the world last year.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Putin is not a young man, and his brutality has earned him many enemies.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• The beating and death of Nichols also sparked calls to end police brutality.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2023
• In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, huge demonstrations for racial justice and against police brutality rolled across the country and the world.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• In Hamad’s view, there is no need to regret the brutalities of October 7th.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
• Garcia said many of their neighbors have watched cases of police brutality, such as the killing of George Floyd, and are afraid to call the police.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• And for the hostages in Israel, the dream is freedom—the warmth of their family’s embrace, the smell of home, the sound of their own name spoken with love instead of brutality.
  — Dr. Maky Zanganeh, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• This trial stuck more to the facts surrounding the murder and its brutality.
  — Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
• Since the book came out in 2020, conversations about police brutality and ethics have only continued to grow.
  — Matt Minton, Variety, 15 Mar. 2025
• Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025