How to Use callous in a Sentence

callous

1 of 2 adjective

• Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats.
  — Dylan Thomas, "A Child's Christmas in Wales",
• The staffers at the El Paso Times weren’t callous or dumb.
  — Steve Almond, Longreads, 3 Apr. 2018
• The act, at once callous and caring, will stay with me.
  — Phil Klay, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• Michel, a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who may or may not be a callous killer.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
• Hands bleed and callous, muscles tear, oars can snap back and crack a rib.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2023
• The piece was callous at best, and downright cruel at worst.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
• Let cuttings callous over for 48 hours and then root in damp sand or soil.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
• The misshapen dwarf imagines that the callous little princess loves him.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• And to some fans, the Stones launching a tour just a month after Watts’ death felt a little callous.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2021
• Nestlé and Cargill could risk sounding baldly callous in the Supreme Court next week.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2020
• And yet Bachmann can’t help but go back to the jealous and callous Frisch, trying her best to make things work.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2023
• Frozen alum John Riddle could melt hearts with his smooth vocals, even as the callous Cal.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
• Which means that Amandine is callous and unkind and Jamie is snappish and blunt to a fault.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
• Prune a shrub, and the shrub will produce a callous around the wound, and likely stimulate new growth below the cut.
  — David M. Kuchta, Treehugger, 4 May 2023
• Lewis cannot seem to conceive that perhaps this kid was just a cruel and callous piece of work.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
• The bride's dismissing her phone call was callous, yes.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Allow the plant’s wound to callous and watch over the course of several weeks as new roots emerge and find their way into the soil.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The post drew a backlash from Internet users who called it callous, and it was taken down on the same day.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• Andy was a one-of-a-kind man, and for two individuals to take his life in such a cold and callous way is sick.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Watching one more -- not just one -- but one more black man murdered in the most callous and public way.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 June 2020
• Pankratz, in addition to coming across cold and callous, may not be too bright.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• Turbo died because of the callous act, and Benji is fighting for his life.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• Speaker Aaron Adams said Floyd’s murder was cold, calm and callous.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2021
• After Duke was criticized for being callous, the school dropped the suit.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2018
• Pick off a leaf and let the end where it was attached develop a callous by leaving it exposed to air.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2019
• To begin a debate about guns in the hours after a tragedy may have been callous in another era.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• There are great, brave people out there trying to protect us, even the callous idiots.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• The next day, Jennifer seems like her usual selfish, callous self.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2019
• The key asset of Russia’s forces now is persistence - dogged and callous.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• My father is the only son of a callous mother and an absent father.
  — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021

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callous

2 of 2 verb

• His beard was rough, and his hands were cracked and calloused.
  — Peter Talbot, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2019
• Years as a welder have left his hands calloused, nearly immune to burns.
  — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit, 25 June 2018
• Hard, calloused fingers move up and down the neck, connecting chords and filling the park with music.
  — David Montero, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• Price's emotional hide is not calloused as, oh, Curt Schilling.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 9 June 2017
• The significance wasn't just that Devers wowed even calloused baseball observers by solving Chapman in such short order, or that a Large Child shall lead them.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• His beard was rough, and his hands were cracked and calloused.
  — Peter Talbot, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2019
• Years as a welder have left his hands calloused, nearly immune to burns.
  — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit, 25 June 2018
• Hard, calloused fingers move up and down the neck, connecting chords and filling the park with music.
  — David Montero, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• Price's emotional hide is not calloused as, oh, Curt Schilling.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 9 June 2017
• The significance wasn't just that Devers wowed even calloused baseball observers by solving Chapman in such short order, or that a Large Child shall lead them.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024