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How to use the word brute in a Sentence?

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Civilians can not resist brute armed force.

Mikhail Velichko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She’s tied the hands of the police, she wants police to fight crime with a hand tied behind their backs, and you can’t fight evil crime, brute force, with one hand tied behind their backs.

Yanez Jr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She’s tied the hands of the police, she wants the to police with one hand behind their back, and you can’t fight evil crime, brute force, with one hand tied behind their backs.

Yanez Jr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This lengthy brute force campaign to collect and exfiltrate data, access credentials and more, is likely ongoing, on a global scale.

Rob Joyce

Found on CNN
2 years ago

the brute will then invite the girl back to his place of dwelling, where he will achieve insertion. He will experience delights so heavenly, so incredible... delights, that have been so cruelly denied to me

Elliot Rodger

added by anonymous
2 years ago

This kind of bludgeoning must stop. China has a strong army but Indians will unite against them if they continue such attacks, the Chinese are using their brute force amid a pandemic, the world must stand with India to punish them.

Kishore Singh

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The Chinese are using their brute force amid a pandemic, the world must stand with India to punish them.

Kishore Singh

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We can do it with brains, we can do it with guile, we can move away from brute force.

Dermot Shea

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The longer we don't see results, people are going to start getting tired and disappointed, and they have the force, the brute force. So we don't want to lose the momentum.

Eduardo Enriquez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Libya is a corrupt, fractured environment that offers many rewards to actors bent on evading political compromise and using brute force instead, others will feel excluded and tempted to conduct attacks and grab territory.

Jalel Harchaoui

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Borders can only be closed by brute force.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is what might be called a cultural assumption in France that whoever is in power will abuse that power unless kept in check, this forms part of the continual tension between government and the citizenry... the muscular action that often accompanies it is part of the negotiating framework, a show of brute strength prior to seeking peaceful resolution. Not for nothing is.

James Shields

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The old South African flag symbolizes brute anti-black racism, and its longer colonial history from which it flows, to that extent, the antiquated and divisive symbolism of the Confederate flag in the U.S. finds ideological affinity with the old South African flag. Both flags show off past injustice and neither flag represents the idealism of breaking from divisive pasts in search of new, inclusive realities.

Eusebius McKaiser

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Passion is a rough diamond: reduced to be more beautiful. (C'est diamant brute la passion: - Diminuera pour être plus beau.)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Edward Young

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.

Persian

added by anonymous
12 years ago

When in doubt, use brute force

Ken Thompson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Et tu, Brute.[You also, Brutus.]

Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Et tu, Brute!

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes

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13 years ago

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Et tu, Brute

William Shakespeare

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14 years ago

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