How to Use brutality in a Sentence

brutality

noun

• Some also decried police brutality and racial bias in policing.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
• The history that isn’t discussed is Britain’s brutality, which is not the same thing as fantasy.
  — Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• The backlash bills and anti-filming laws are meant to quell our collective responses to police brutality.
  — Sidney Fussell, The New Republic, 26 July 2022
• The extraction was done with notable brutality in parts of central Africa and with a distinct lack of sentiment everywhere else.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• The league has, however, taken stands in favor of sweeping police reforms that would address brutality and racial profiling.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
• Her choice helped galvanize the civil rights movement, exposing the brutality of life in the Jim Crow South.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• Floyd's killing was captured on a bystander video and set off protests in Minneapolis and around the world against police brutality and racial injustice.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
• The brutality then becomes more of the focus than the honesty the benefit to the feedback-giver might the benefit to the feedback-receiver.
  — Eva Epker, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
• But the encounter is one from which family and advocates say police can and should learn, as people with disabilities are more likely to be victims of police brutality.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
• The Greeks didn’t flinch at depicting the family of man at its most vigorously violent, and the manner in which each act of brutality begets another.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• The first is to images of brutality, the second to an artist.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This trial stuck more to the facts surrounding the murder and its brutality.
  — Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
• The murder of George Floyd in 2020 spurred them to join the protest movement that sprang up nationwide against police brutality.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2023
• Denzel Washington plays Lucas as a speak-softly-but-carry-a-big-stick type who likes to operate in the shadows, but strikes with overwhelming and often audacious brutality to defend his territory.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024