How to Use ruthless in a Sentence

ruthless

adjective

• The journalist was ruthless in his criticism.
• This isn’t the first time the ruthless Feyd has been brought to the big screen.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• The story’s ruthless kicker about the show the next night at the Hollywood Bowl?
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• Laser-focus, a ruthless eye for the nonessential and cutting out the fluff in favour of the substance.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Dons operate out of the Wing T and Doyle’s calling card is a ruthless running game.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• The school, Lavin concedes, is not currently equipped to compete in the ruthless world of NIL, and maybe shouldn’t try.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• As her success and power grow, so too does her ruthless rule.
  — Laura Zornosa, TIME, 26 Jan. 2024
• Mendelsohn is the moral and creative hero, but the striving, anything-to-survive Binoche gives the series a ruthless spark.
  — Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
• The series was said to follow two ruthless step siblings who would go to great lengths to stay on top of the social pyramid.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• But the Bruins’ ruthless offensive pace and efficiency left the hosts in the dust from there.
  — Scott Sepich, oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
• On Saturday, Horford brushed aside the slow start in front of a ruthless crowd and had one of his finest moments of this season.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
• By the end of the first episode, Marissa is gone and Dre has taken a sharp left turn toward life as a ruthless serial killer.
  — Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• And then there is a dangerous way to arrive at our southern border in the hands of ruthless smugglers.
  — ABC News, 14 May 2023
• In the new movie, Butler portrays the character as a completely bald and ruthless killer.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
• But Fanatics’ rise in the sports-card industry still reads like a tale of ruthless conquest.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
• There are also many twinkling eyes, sinking hearts, and ruthless stares.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The ruthless mother and son became one of the richest and most influential players in the English court.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• This book is the most ruthless depiction of marooned humans on an alien planet.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
• In the end, Parker-Chan seems to suggest, power belongs not to the most ruthless but to those who are most successful at self-forgiveness.
  — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are delicious as the two ruthless favorites of the monarch, who try to outmaneuver each other at all costs.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
• Marie’s nemesis, Nazi officer Von Rumpel, couldn’t be more ruthless.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• So to meet the demands of Mars, Ingenuity's designers had to be ruthless in their choices.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
• The sheer impact of the war on Ukraine’s agriculture is mind-blowing and has been multiplied by Russia’s ruthless tactics.
  — Olivier Guitta, Fortune, 25 July 2023
• The current leader, his brother Abdul Malik al-Houthi, is less of a thinker and more of a ruthless military leader.
  — Elliott Goat, The Week Uk, theweek, 18 Jan. 2024
• Now, the ruthless foreign tyrant who rules the region has pulled Veris from her home and given her a task: Go back into the forest and retrieve his children who are ensnared there.
  — Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• In the sequel, Rake is tasked with rescuing the battered family of a ruthless Georgian gangster.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
• Swank gave a strong performance as a ruthless reporter, and the newsroom ensemble was likable.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 11 Mar. 2023
• Unlike shoplifting, this is not a penny-ante crime, and it’s carried out every day with the ruthless efficiency of the boardroom.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• Elon Musk is known to be mercurial, demanding, and at times ruthless.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024