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How to use the word cruelly in a Sentence?

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Every major medical association in the country supports healthcare for transgender youth, but Republican Gov. Abbott is ignoring experts on children's issues to cruelly and viciously target transgender young people, businesses that operate in Texas and host high-profile events like SXSW should contact Gov. Republican Gov. Abbott and let Republican Gov. Abbott know how this will make doing business in the state more difficult and that the only result of Republican Gov. Abbott action will be unnecessary harm to trans people and parents of trans youth.

Kate Ellis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This tribute to Sgt. Brian LeVigne is one that will be ever present to anyone that comes into contact with K-9 Roy. While we continue to heal as an agency after losing Sergeant LeVigne, I know that K-9 Roy will be a constant reminder of the life that was cruelly taken from us.

Sheriff Chad Chronister

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This industry, which is cruelly ironic, is on its knees. And we need a seat at the table. We never got one.

Alyssa Tushman

Found on FOX News
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

CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE McKean was the daughter of RFKs oldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former Maryland lieutenant governor. Gideon was deeply compassionate, declining to sing childrens songs if they contained a hint of animals or people being treated cruelly.

Gideon McKean

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It wasn't enough to just do what they did to me, they had to so cruelly insult the people who loved that family and that show.

Roseanne Barr

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Liu Xia never gave up on Liu Xia wrongfully imprisoned late husband, and for this Liu Xia was cruelly punished, the Chinese authorities tried to silence Liu Xia, but Liu Xia stood tall for human rights.

Patrick Poon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A few months earlier and a continent away the same was true in Manchester, England. The painful truth is that this year in just those two events, 81 music lovers, just like us, went out to a night of music and never came home, so, tonight, to honor those we lost, Eric, Brothers Osbourne and I, who all performed in Las Vegas that tragic weekend, want to come together and honor the memory of those music-loving souls so cruelly taken from us.

Maren Morris

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Even though the president obviously believes this is OK, this is one of those teachable moments when we need to learn ... even smart people make not so smart choices online, explain to your child that there is never a reason, online or offline, to treat people cruelly. Even if you are the president of the United States, again, it doesn't excuse.

Sue Scheff

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Another promise cruelly broken by President Trump, this one with heartbreaking consequences for brave young DREAMers across the nation, instead of honoring the protections of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative, President Trump has unleashed an indiscriminate deportation dragnet of appalling inhumanity.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It was a slow and brutal death for so many, even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of god should ever suffer such horror.

Will Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The United States is praying and grieving with you for the loved ones of those cruelly taken from us, including Americans, and for the many who were injured in these despicable attacks, we will continue to provide any assistance necessary in investigating these heinous acts of terrorism and bringing those responsible to justice ... We offered today anything they need and they are already taking us up on (it).

State John Kerry on Friday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The United States is praying and grieving with you for the loved ones of those cruelly taken from us, including Americans, and for the many who were injured in these despicable attacks, the United States stands firmly with Belgium and with the nations of Europe in the face of this tragedy.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you care about animal welfare and the environment, the two are just almost the opposite of each other because the more efficiently you can farm animals, the lower the carbon emissions but the more cruelly you treat the animals.

Will MacAskill

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

...Violence toward a U.S. citizen - like those who have been cruelly murdered by ISIS – could potentially provide jurisdiction for U.S. prosecution. If individuals can be identified who knowingly made oil purchases funding the terrorist agenda of ISIS, those individuals might be considered for very serious federal crimes, even though there could be complicated issues of arrest and extradition.

Kendall Coffey

added by SHUPirate2002
8 years ago

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

Charles Cooley

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Michael J. Fox

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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