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
• 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
• In the face of a brutal crackdown by the regime, protests spread like wildfire in the following weeks.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• 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
• News from the front carries dire warnings that this brutal war could grind on and on.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 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
• The smile, like the wigs, helps free him to make art out of even his most brutal experiences.
  — Adam Bradley Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• Playing in the brutal Big East had prepared the Huskies well for this moment.
  — John Marshall, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
• The largest movement of peoples across the seas occurred by brutal force, through the Atlantic slave trade.
  — TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
• This is why Sisi is still in power and why the West turned a blind eye to his brutal post-Arab Spring power grab.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
• Smith scored again against the Pride despite brutal heat and humidity, and a loss for the Thorns.
  — oregonlive, 15 June 2023
• Till began a chain of events that led to his kidnapping and brutal killing.
  — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• But let the optimism not blind him to the brutal lesson of this series: Miami is nowhere close to competing to the standard this franchise sets for itself.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
• Despite the already brutal external threats, the festival also suffered from internal ones, coming from its own fellow citizens.
  — Sonya Vseliubska, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025