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"Brunt" in a Sentence (16 examples)
The brunt of criticism was borne by the chairmen.
Coastal cities will take the brunt of the storm.
Tom had to bear the brunt of his boss's anger.
The CEO bore the brunt of investor anger after a record drop in the company's profits.
Oceanfront houses bore the brunt of the huge waves whipped up by the storm.
Yanni bore the brunt of his wife's troubles.
Frontline workers bear the brunt of the pandemic’s risk.
Donald bore the brunt of the teacher's anger.
I don't want to bear the brunt of it.
Farmers are bearing the brunt of the devastation the feral pests leave behind. The pigs are drawn to the sweet taste of sugarcane, while their incessant foraging carves up cultivated land and uproots plants.
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Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.
There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.
Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.
"… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?" "What if they do? We must brunt it." We brunted the storm.
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