Examples of brute in a Sentence

Adjective They used brute force to open the door. the brute fact of getting old Noun Let go of me, you brute! it is a fundamental sense of right and wrong that separates us from the brutes

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Because of that, his brute-force attacks submitting many passwords and phrases at once in hopes of guessing correct logins to break into T-Mobile’s IT servers worked. — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022 Doused in a fountain soda or a cool pour of lemonade, nugget ice becomes a chompable little snack in your drink, a sensory experience extending beyond the brute force of frozen. — Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 12 July 2022 Raine can have tact, like negotiating his team out of a dangerous basement, or use subtle brute force by sticking his finger into a fresh bullet wound in order to navigate difficult situations appropriately. — Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 7 July 2022 With these constraints, the Court is forcing the agency to approach the problem of carbon pollution with brute-force tools. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 30 June 2022 In many ways, his hero is the joke: a perpetual bull in a china shop for whom brute force is the default in any perilous situation, but who also has a humble, long-suffering, softie side. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 June 2022 The final message of Men is that for all their scary intent and brute-force behavior, men are inherently, almost cosmically pathetic creations. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022 The key is the ability to brute-force the PIN that encrypts the data. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 24 May 2022 The Taiwanese government has been integral in protecting us from the brute force of the pandemic. — Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The imagery is unmistakable and centuries old: the brute and the maiden. — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022 Now Biden’s job is to give the Ukrainians the tools to guarantee democracy’s survival and the brute’s defeat. — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 26 Mar. 2022 Further leaning into its inevitable role as a pavement-dwelling brute, the Defender V8's Terrain Response system gains a new Dynamic mode, which sharpens the engine throttle response and stiffens up the adaptive dampers. — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 17 Feb. 2022 Bang makes Fjölnir an implacable brute, but not an unsympathetic one. — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022 The world has known for 20 years that Putin is a brute. — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 26 Mar. 2022 By making physics do the work of computation for us, rather than brute-forcing it through a reality-screen of ones and zeroes. — John Koetsier, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022 The brute then begins to foot-stomp the woman – and does so seven times – and spits on her, according to police and the video. — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2022 Barnhill nixed the human-eating brute of most fairy tales. — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022 See More

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