BRUTE in a Sentence
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57 example sentences for BRUTE, such as:
1. He used brute force to take control.
2. They used brute force to break open the door.
3. We will achieve much more by persuasion than by brute force.
4. Discussion can be more effective than the use of brute force.
5. The government used brute force to keep people in subjection.
2. They used brute force to break open the door.
3. We will achieve much more by persuasion than by brute force.
4. Discussion can be more effective than the use of brute force.
5. The government used brute force to keep people in subjection.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BRUTE
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brute
n. a cruelly rapacious person
a. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1 Her sidesaddle was strapped on as sorry a mule as Scarlett had ever seen, a flop-eared lame brute, and Cathleen was almost as sorry looking as the animal she rode.
2 He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip, and hangs there like a leech, till the mighty brute is worried to death.
3 No; but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world.
4 And consequently Derick and all his host were now in valiant chase of this unnearable brute.
5 There is no longer a restraint upon the brute passion of the Negro.
6 If her husband did not adore her, he was a brute, deserving of death by slow torture.
7 So saying the honest but implacable scout made the circuit of the dead, into whose senseless bosoms he thrust his long knife, with as much coolness as though they had been so many brute carcasses.
8 Spurning the loathsome object with his foot, he turned from it with the same indifference he would have quitted a brute carcass.
9 The chief was as good as his word, and Duncan now found himself alone in that wild and desolate abode with the helpless invalid and the fierce and dangerous brute.
10 It was at least necessary for her to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power, to make her equal to the task of treating me as though I were a brute.
11 I told him I did, come what might; that he had used me like a brute for six months, and that I was determined to be used so no longer.
12 It was impressive, to the nurses, the way an old boy of his age could still bawl and make a brute like that obey him.
13 And he knew it and did it on purpose to tease her, the old brute, her father-in-law.
14 But under Mrs Bolton's influence, Clifford was tempted to enter this other fight, to capture the bitch-goddess by brute means of industrial production.
15 One should be a brute not to feel for the distress they are in; and from what I hear, poor Mr. Bertram has a bad chance of ultimate recovery.
Example Sentence:
1 We will achieve much more by persuasion than by brute force.
2 They used brute force to break open the door.
3 Discussion can be more effective than the use of brute force.
4 He used brute force to take control.
5 The government used brute force to keep people in subjection.
6 Boxing is a test of skill and technique, rather than brute strength.
7 That dog is a dangerous brute; it bites people.
8 The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.