How to Use cruel in a Sentence

cruel

adjective

• Hunger is a cruel fact of nature.
• The footage went viral on Weibo, with many noting that the killing was cruel and unnecessary.
  — Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2022
• My inner monologue became cruel in my still-developing mind.
  — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Nov. 2024
• Prince Andrew is cruel towards his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 27 Apr. 2022
• In season 2, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to the Dutton ranch.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
• In what seems like a cruel cosmic joke, Toyota is about to run out of credits shortly after launching its first electric vehicle.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
• The people who are dangerous are, usually, needlessly cruel.
  — Denise Davidsonwriter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2022
• Both are chafing under the minor indignities of everyday life — many of them coming from husbands who don’t mean to be cruel, but can’t help taking their wives for granted.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2022
• There are billions more people shackled by poverty, addiction, depression, anxiety, abuse, loneliness, and of course, this cruel and senseless war in Ukraine.
  — Rabbi Steve Leder, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2022
• Moore's attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to delay his death while another court determines if either available method is cruel and unusual punishment.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Apr. 2022
• Moore’s attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to delay his death while another court determines if either available method is cruel and unusual punishment.
  — Fox News, 15 Apr. 2022
• The measure passed Thursday is one of the cruelest yet.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
• As the clock winds down, Fenn might be in for a cruel summer.
  — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• The reality is, to go on the run with the child is cruel and not fair.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2024
• The sport was very cruel in those decades, the sixties, the seventies and part of the eighties.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• The brides did indeed find a strange (and cruel) way of showing it.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2024
• Online trolls told me the things my own brain was telling me at its cruelest.
  — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 8 July 2024
• The former is humble and kind, the latter is rich and cruel.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
• But the school’s photographer assigned me to the back row, next to the tallest boy in the class—such cruel fate!
  — Thessaly La Force, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
• To do that to a writer — or to anyone about their work — is cruel.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Chicago Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
• Fame has its burdens, some of which can be cruel to the psyche.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• Of course, returning the cat at this point would be cruel.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• Shih has a rich voice and a stillness in his manner that makes his cruel words linger.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Nick Lowe and Shakespeare were wrong, about having to be cruel to be kind.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
• The rumors are terrible and cruel but this time, one of them was true.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean that the balmier Aurica won’t be cruel to a lot of species.
  — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2022
• So casually cruel, in the name of nothing at all — just for the hell of it.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2022
• Gracie has a rather cruel habit of telling her teenage daughter that her arms are too fat.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
• These ghosts are old and young, cruel and playful, loved or unknown.
  — Hazlitt, 29 Nov. 2022
• But Oz was born to take every cheap shot presented by the cruelest of fates.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024