How to Use brutality in a Sentence

brutality

noun

• 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
• His long-coming demise is surprising only by its level of brutality.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
• The news of his death was included in her segment, a choice made to underscore the brutality of the Russian onslaught.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2022
• His name is a symbol for the racial equality fight, and a rallying cry for justice and an end to police brutality against Black people.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 25 May 2022
• Many of us understand that America was built on the brutality of slavery and the looting of Indigenous land.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• Rasoulof’s story is harrowing, and the movie works as an urgent political thriller, a blunt domestic drama and a document of state brutality.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
• 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
• These events are only a prelude to the greater brutality to come.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 22 June 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
• 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
• Then came the murder of George Floyd and the ubiquitous protests against police brutality.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
• Like the rest of the world, Arab governments were caught off guard by the unprecedented scale and brutality of Hamas’s attack.
  — Ghaith Al-Omari, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
• Yet, over time, Bashar Assad inherited his father’s obstinacy and brutality and increasingly relied on the security apparatus to maintain control, stifling dissent and curbing opposition.
  — Sefa Secen / Made By History, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
• The shooting, and Mangione's arrest, has captured the attention of the nation, for the brutality of the crime and for the anger and frustration expressed by many towards the health care insurance system.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025