How to Use brutal in a Sentence

brutal

adjective

• The traffic was brutal on the way to work.
• The movie is a brutal depiction of the war.
• I had a brutal headache this morning.
• The writer describes the dangers of drugs with brutal honesty.
• Sailors sometimes faced brutal punishments like whipping.
• The offense was brutal, to say the least, in the red zone.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
• Having said that, the race in the South in Class 4A is brutal.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 2 Nov. 2022
• It's been a brutal season for the 76ers and one that the team would like to forget.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
• My daughters were two and four years old, and the process was brutal.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
• But the brutal, 10-month siege of Bakhmut spares no one and nothing.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Now the brutal war looks poised to bring NATO right to his door.
  — Emily Rauhala, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2022
• The heavy dose of it was American, but the U.K. press was brutal as well.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2022
• At the same time, Iran was locked in a brutal war with its neighbor, Iraq.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 4 Aug. 2022
• Gilmore came of age in a time where comedies did not have to be so brutal.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• The game got off to a brutal start for UConn, and continued to get worse.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2022
• There’s no getting around the fact that lunges can be brutal.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 12 Oct. 2022
• But her life took a dark turn with a brutal assault at home.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• That’s part of what made the loss so brutal — and so frustrating.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
• In the face of a brutal crackdown by the regime, protests spread like wildfire in the following weeks.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• Lori survives the brutal events of prom night, but not without a fight.
  — Jane Lacroix, People.com, 24 May 2025
• The battle for Kyiv has been brutal, and civilians in the cities around the capital have borne much of the brunt of war.
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2022
• There are many brutal deaths There are countless deaths in the film, and many are quite intense.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• There’s no other way to put it – the numbers are brutal.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2022
• The Vikings had a brutal defense at that point and that did not change until the 2023 season.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
• There is no doubt this winter has been brutal for some.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022
• News from the front carries dire warnings that this brutal war could grind on and on.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
• Decades of the most brutal matches in wrestling history will do that to you.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2022
• That our forever work is to learn to hold the brutal and beautiful in the same palm.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
• Mortensen not only survived the brutal massacre, but is also the only eyewitness to have seen Kohberger at the scene of the crime.
  — Chris Spargo, People.com, 23 July 2025
• The series’ impressively brutal action sequences are the fun stuff, but questions about the validity of a monarchy and the intrusions of the outside world on an insular culture are what stick with you.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025