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How to use the word BRUTAL in a Sentence?

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But when it does happen, it’s brutal.

El Niño

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Countless lives have been destroyed; freedom and human dignity have been trampled in the most brutal way. The security of Europe has been threatened, together with our democratic values, even as we abhor the appalling scenes of destruction, we can take heart from our unity – in defense of Ukraine, of peace and freedom.

The King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we don’t do [the reforms] today, we will have to do much more brutal measures in the future.

Gabriel Attal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we don’t do [the reforms] today, it’s much more brutal measures that we will have to do in future.

Gabriel Attal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The length – five months – and intensity of this endless, brutal heat went beyond what I had imagined.

Maximiliano Herrara

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.

Human Rights Watch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s beauty in that, those moments of in between, if we are having a good day or a good hour, and it’s a beautiful sunny day, we’re going to spend it at the beach or lake and be grateful for even one or two hours he doesn’t experience an episode, it’s beautiful and brutal at the same time. Every single thing that Henry does or endures, it feels miraculous and terribly tragic at the same time.

Mary Saladino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our economic sanctions, export controls, and tariffs announced this week, in coordination with the G7, demonstrate that we will continue to work with our allies and partners to increase the pressure on President Putin, make it harder for him to wage his brutal war, and continue degrading the Russian economy’s ability to fuel continued aggression.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We welcome the Chinese announcement that they want peace because that’s what we always want to pursue in situations like this. But we also have to be clear that if there are any thoughts and efforts by the Chinese and others to provide lethal support to the Russians in their brutal attack against Ukraine, that that is unacceptable.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The The Taliban regime is a pariah around the globe and desperate for any kind of positive media or positive portrayal of what is a brutal and disastrous reign.

Arash Azizzada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The brutal killing of Muslims prostrating before Allah is against the teachings of the Quran.

Shehbaz Sharif

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We grieve with Tyre Nichols ’ loved ones and offer them our deepest sympathies as they grapple with the pain of Tyre Nichols heinous and brutal murder, our hearts also go out to the city of Memphis. As they continue their investigations into the events that led to Tyre’s tragic and untimely death, we’re encouraged by the swift response by Police Chief Cerelyn Davis. We join their city officials and Tyre’s family in calling for peace and offer them our support on their road to healing.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the skulls is deeply damaged by a sword or a bayonet, so it was a very brutal way of dying.

Courtesy Bernard Wilkin/AWAP Wilkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The weapons on this list are designed to do one thing and one thing only: kill people in a horribly brutal, vicious way.

Darren Bailey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We believe by the decision that OPEC+ made last week, [Saudi Arabia is] certainly aligning themselves with Russia, and right now, this is not the time to be aligning with Russia, especially with this brutal, unprecedented war that they started in Ukraine.

Karine Jean-Pierre

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One thing is certain: the current situation means we need to do more together, the brutal Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is getting more and more brutal and unscrupulous... Russia’s threat of nuclear weapons shows that Russian authorities have no scruples.

Christine Lambrecht

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

I allowed you to destroy me, my self-confidence, my ego, my identity as a human being and as a man. for years i was a shadow of my former self. the pain you caused was brutal and intense but i have a new life and a new incarnation and you’re hardly worth thinking about anymore and being free at last of your clutches, I have a new world to look forward to.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

It is bitter that we now have to temporarily use some power plants that we had already shut down because of Russia's brutal attack on Ukraine. But it's only for a little while.

Olaf Scholz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have been very clear that there will be consequences if there is systemic Chinese government support for Russia's brutal war in Ukraine.

China Nicholas Burns

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'd never seen him like this, the eyes were hollow. Just that first glance was brutal.

Paul Cryil Westhead

Found on CNN
1 year ago

PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Sir Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, we can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil.

Suzanne Nossel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We call on all Americans to see this unsavory attempt to minimize the grisly bone-saw attack on Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi for what it is -- an attempt to sweep under the rug a brutal state-sponsored murder, we call on people of conscience to reject this tournament. Do not attend. Do not watch it on television. Let it fail.

The National Press Club

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Right at the top of the meeting with the crown prince, he raised the issue, both the direct issue of Jamal Khashoggi and his brutal and grisly murder and the broader issue of human rights as well and let the crown prince know exactly where America is.

Jake Sullivan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our border is in a state of brutal and violent anarchy as people totally unvetted and unchecked flow into our country by the millions. To put it simply, we are a nation in decline, we are a failing nation.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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