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Example sentences for "brutalising"

Lexicographically close words:
brusque; brusquely; brusqueness; brutal; brutalised; brutalities; brutality; brutalization; brutalize; brutalized
  1. Sonora, which is the richest country in the world, is in the last throes, under the brutalising and unintelligent system of the Mexican government.

  2. The division of labour has multiplied the brutalising influences of forced work.

  3. History proves conclusively that they have no such effect, except perhaps for the moment, but that they have the effect of hardening and brutalising the hearts of those they are supposed to terrify is certain.

  4. So long as capital punishment is legitimate there is, however, at least the appearance of an excuse for the development of these brutalising outbursts.

  5. Capital punishment, which is brutal like flogging, is comparatively free from the brutalising influence of flogging.

  6. It is very unpleasant to think that so much good bone and muscle is being ground and destroyed by work so brutalising and unnatural.

  7. Slavery fixed a brutalising mark on generation after generation that is not yet entirely erased.

  8. I readily believe this to be so in the case of the most vulgar types on either side, though, even on these, the brutalising and demoralising effect of the war seems less to be feared than amongst their corresponding types among the civilians.

  9. To employ excessive and brutalising punishments in order to suppress small offences, is, therefore, to abandon the aim of civilising, to declare internecine war against the class, and to regard them simply as a nuisance to be abated.

  10. But the brutalising influence is even more objectionable as it applies to the legislator than as it applies to the criminal.

  11. They are likewise fond of resorting to the prize-ring, and have occasionally even attained some eminence, as principals, in those disgraceful and brutalising exhibitions called pugilistic combats.

  12. In his "introduction" he satisfied some curiosity, but raised still more, when speaking of the English Gypsies and especially of their eminence "in those disgraceful and brutalising exhibitions called pugilistic combats.

  13. But neglect of the socialising and refining influence of family life leads inevitably to a hardening of character and a brutalising of life in general.

  14. Examples of the existence of this belief are continually being recorded in newspapers, although they now only rank as solitary reminiscences of one of the most degrading and brutalising beliefs that European history records.

  15. Chamberlain has continued the work of Disraeli, but he has done so by vulgarising and brutalising it.

  16. The army is a laundry where they throw the consciences of men into a tub of soap-suds, and where the characters of men are wrung and twisted like wet linen, and are placed, shapeless, under the wooden beater of a brutalising discipline.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brutalising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.