Brutality

//bɹuːˈtælɪti//

"Brutality" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The police brutality incidents nearly set off a riot.

If a man kills a tiger, they say it's sport. If a tiger kills a man, they say it's brutality.

Police brutality has been a problem for a long time.

There are too many victims of police brutality.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.

Brutality is part of daily life in areas controlled by ISIS.

I remembered the case well, for it was one in which Holmes had taken an interest on account of the peculiar ferocity of the crime and the wanton brutality which had marked all the actions of the assassin.

I have adopted a beautiful dog. Its prior owner was very abusive, and it sometimes wanders. Though it's not the first dog I have adopted, it is more frightened than any of the others. The brutality it endured from its previous owners is unconscionable. It needs discipline, not brutality. A owner who breaks a dog's spirit will never know true love from his dog. It will be fake and submissive. But that kind of owner doesn't really care; for them, a dog is a dog. I will wait 45 days and put a new collar on it, and then it will know that it is safe from its past abusers.

Mennad has never seen any atrocities or brutality.

The Vandals were known for their merciless brutality.

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‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police[…]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

police brutality

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