How to Use pitiless in a Sentence

pitiless

adjective

• The soldiers were pitiless toward their enemy.
• Liu doesn’t invite a shred of sympathy for this pitiless mom.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• Drugged, kidnapped, and manacled while a pitiless killer wears her face.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 July 2024
• The pitiless spotlights glaring above did little to help the matter.
  — David Weiss, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
• As with the others, the pitiless treatment only ends when they’re slaughtered.
  — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
• Football training camp is drudgery under a pitiless summer sun.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
• Here, as throughout, the framing remains steady, a visual choice that can feel like a long, hard, pitiless stare.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• Biel is a pitiless cokehead who, we’re told, later marries a senator and has four kids.
  — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
• There is brief room here for men too, as both pitiless detractors and vague supporters of Hilma’s work.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
• Many people ran but some stood their ground and put up a fight, throwing things at the attackers to try to halt or at least slow their pitiless rampage.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 5 June 2017
• El Akkad has done nothing less than reveal how a curious girl evolves into a pitiless fighter.
  — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
• El Akkad has done nothing less than reveal how a curious girl evolves into a pitiless fighter.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• The competition is pitiless; only three per cent pass muster each year, while the rest barely manage to subsist.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• One’s eye is at first dazzled, then sated, and eventually tired by this pitiless inflation of scale.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
• The food chain is in full and pitiless effect, and no one bats an eye, or side-eyes a bat, when natural predatory impulses kick in.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
• Yet what happens when power descends, razing that village to the ground and remaking it in its own pitiless image?
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The scene offers a pitiless view of the sexism, and materialism, of the culture in which the girls were being raised.
  — Mark Oppenheimer, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
• In this pitiless post-war zone, victims victimize others to their mutual detriment.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 May 2024
• Others take the voice of Charles, directing an impassioned j’accuse against his pitiless creator.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• Out in the woods, under the pelting of a pitiless storm, a middle-aged American male, stripped to the waist, fights a furious bear.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• Prices dropped to less than $10 a barrel, triggering a pitiless industry shakeout.
  — Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• As far as Hollywood is concerned, Anastasia wasn’t shot or stabbed in a pitiless slaughter.
  — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 25 Apr. 2017
• That unlucky sojourner happens to be the one person here that otherwise pitiless Adem cannot bear losing.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
• Whatever rough beast Yeats had seen had already slouched its way out of the desert, laying waste to everything that fell under its pitiless, blank gaze.
  — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
• No one wants to think about this now, but eventually our old friend Adam Smith will come calling to collect his inevitable and pitiless fee.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2020
• But rather than dilute the scare factor, the humor makes the sense of doom only more pitiless and Orlok’s plans for Ellen more spine-chilling.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
• There’s no other game on the market like Sea of Thieves, which simulates the life of a pirate by pitting the player against the pitiless sea.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 5 Feb. 2020
• The writer’s calling is to set that memory in the amber of his prose; in Proust’s pitiless formulation, art is all, life is nothing.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 4 May 2018
• Told together, the overlapping stories deal with issues of mental illness, lives of quiet desperation, and the pitiless march of time.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
• But Lincoln was the Declaration’s most pitiless and most brilliant editor.
  — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026