How to Use callous in a Sentence

callous

adjective

• Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats.
  — Dylan Thomas, "A Child's Christmas in Wales",
• The piece was callous at best, and downright cruel at worst.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
• The misshapen dwarf imagines that the callous little princess loves him.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• Michel, a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who may or may not be a callous killer.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
• Lewis cannot seem to conceive that perhaps this kid was just a cruel and callous piece of work.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
• The staffers at the El Paso Times weren’t callous or dumb.
  — Steve Almond, Longreads, 3 Apr. 2018
• The bride's dismissing her phone call was callous, yes.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Allow the plant’s wound to callous and watch over the course of several weeks as new roots emerge and find their way into the soil.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• My father is the only son of a callous mother and an absent father.
  — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Prune a shrub, and the shrub will produce a callous around the wound, and likely stimulate new growth below the cut.
  — David M. Kuchta, Treehugger, 4 May 2023
• To begin a debate about guns in the hours after a tragedy may have been callous in another era.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• Pick off a leaf and let the end where it was attached develop a callous by leaving it exposed to air.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2019
• Pankratz, in addition to coming across cold and callous, may not be too bright.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• This is not the product of callous indifference but the power of empire.
  — Gary Younge, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2020
• Watching one more -- not just one -- but one more black man murdered in the most callous and public way.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 June 2020
• Cuttings can be left unplanted for a couple of weeks to let the wound callous over, or planted right away.
  — Leslie Crawford, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• There are great, brave people out there trying to protect us, even the callous idiots.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• Turbo died because of the callous act, and Benji is fighting for his life.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• The post drew a backlash from Internet users who called it callous, and it was taken down on the same day.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• That remains true even if, lately, it has been hijacked for callous ends.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2020
• After Duke was criticized for being callous, the school dropped the suit.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2018
• Which means that Amandine is callous and unkind and Jamie is snappish and blunt to a fault.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
• The overdose crisis is no excuse to be callous about their suffering.
  — Travis Rieder, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• Let cuttings callous over for 48 hours and then root in damp sand or soil.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
• Andy was a one-of-a-kind man, and for two individuals to take his life in such a cold and callous way is sick.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• And to some fans, the Stones launching a tour just a month after Watts’ death felt a little callous.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2021
• Nestlé and Cargill could risk sounding baldly callous in the Supreme Court next week.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2020
• His need for a visa, her need for security, no longer seemed grasping or callous.
  — Leila Aboulela, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• Just reading or hearing that callous statement today brings it all back.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• The next day, Jennifer seems like her usual selfish, callous self.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2024