How to Use ruthless in a Sentence

ruthless

adjective

• The journalist was ruthless in his criticism.
• This isn’t the first time the ruthless Feyd has been brought to the big screen.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• When times get tough, Levi asks for help from a ruthless loan shark.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
• The court of public opinion is a ruthless and volatile beast.
  — Naveen Kumar, Town & Country, 12 July 2022
• The story’s ruthless kicker about the show the next night at the Hollywood Bowl?
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• Laser-focus, a ruthless eye for the nonessential and cutting out the fluff in favour of the substance.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Brolin stars as the ruthless producer of the game show, while O’Brian will play one of the contestants on the show.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
• The Dons operate out of the Wing T and Doyle’s calling card is a ruthless running game.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• The school, Lavin concedes, is not currently equipped to compete in the ruthless world of NIL, and maybe shouldn’t try.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• Green Bay’s rushing attack was ruthless on the day, picking up 261 yards on the ground.
  — Sam Joseph, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
• One of Gotham's most ruthless villains is getting his time to shine.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
• Putin point-blank as a ruthless dictator who the world must unite to defeat.
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022
• After all, a world of magic and dragons is a ruthless one.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 29 Sep. 2022
• Devoting one's entire life to the game, and for it to suddenly be gone, can be ruthless to the soul.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
• As her success and power grow, so too does her ruthless rule.
  — Laura Zornosa, TIME, 26 Jan. 2024
• Those small kindnesses mean so much in such a ruthless game.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• The world must unite to stop this ruthless dictator – before it’s too late.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2022
• Zelensky, 44, appeared to be no match for the ruthless Putin.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, among city residents the NOPD was known to be ruthless.
  — Longreads, 2 May 2024
• Mendelsohn is the moral and creative hero, but the striving, anything-to-survive Binoche gives the series a ruthless spark.
  — Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
• The series was said to follow two ruthless step siblings who would go to great lengths to stay on top of the social pyramid.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• But the Bruins’ ruthless offensive pace and efficiency left the hosts in the dust from there.
  — Scott Sepich, oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
• On Saturday, Horford brushed aside the slow start in front of a ruthless crowd and had one of his finest moments of this season.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
• By the end of the first episode, Marissa is gone and Dre has taken a sharp left turn toward life as a ruthless serial killer.
  — Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• The rest of that transition need not be as ruthless as the beginning, but MBS shows no sign of letting up.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• The wealthy and the beautiful that the first two-thirds of the film centers on are no less ruthless and transactional than Abigail.
  — Clarissa Cruz, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• However, my client was stuck with the image of a turnaround leader—and a ruthless one.
  — Katrina Burrus, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• For those who have rigged up their own ruthless way of making things work, there’s no incentive to change the status quo.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2022
• Driver co-stars as the matriarch of a ruthless British crime family.
  — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Lastly, be ruthless with time management and set clear boundaries to avoid burning out.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024