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Example sentences for "brutalities"

Lexicographically close words:
brusquely; brusqueness; brutal; brutalised; brutalising; brutality; brutalization; brutalize; brutalized; brutalizes
  1. The hope that the general recognition of a humaner code would soften or abate some of its worst brutalities has been rudely dispelled by the events of the last few weeks.

  2. He did not desire the brutalities in Finland, he did not approve of the iniquities of the Jewish pogroms, but his hand was too weak to stop the fury of the reactionary party.

  3. Recalling the acts of those fanaticised sectarians, one might almost recall the barbarities and brutalities of the diabolical Nero.

  4. Wildman will probably be long remembered by many who suffered brutalities and tortures at the hands of Aguinaldo's horde of cut-throats, inspired by the late Consul's advise.

  5. Because they wished to offer a protest against the brutalities of the Government officials.

  6. That night was the culminating horror to a long string of systematic brutalities and barbarities which constituted a veritable reign of terror.

  7. The prison, at least the precincts of the Avenue of the Damned, was ruled with a rod of iron, and various brutalities were practised and often upon the slightest pretext.

  8. The details of these brutalities are now of no interest; but Prescott, the historian, thus sums up the situation.

  9. Simon de Montfort, against the Cathari, and great brutalities were perpetrated, and at length the still more brutal Inquisition carried on the purposeless warfare.

  10. Once or twice when his life was shaken to the center by the brutalities of war he burst into cries that still quiver with passion: Oh!

  11. She told them how she had fled from the storm of Exeter, with a troop of women, who dreaded the brutalities of the Normans.

  12. The entire hive protected the bee against the caprices of favoritism and the brutalities of despotism.

  13. Not yet did the brutalities of the war spoil the picture painted in khaki tones upon the green background of the French countryside.

  14. My contention is borne out by the fact that these brutalities are not practised to-day in anything like the same degree, for the old army has become more or less extinct, and a new army of civilians has taken its place.

  15. These were not times when it was possible for any girl, however carefully nurtured and tenderly brought up, to remain ignorant of the realities and the brutalities of life.

  16. But of what went on outside our prison walls we had not an idea, though sometimes poor papa would brave the warder's brutalities and ask him questions of what was happening in Paris every day.

  17. The brutalities by which the poor little children are kept sufficiently awake for the purposes of their task-masters are shocking.

  18. We talk about the brutalities of the dark ages and we profess to shudder as we read in the books of the shameful exactions of the rights of feudal superiors.

  19. The Christian slave trade represents one of the most frightful and systematic brutalities the world has ever known.

  20. However much we admire the beginnings of the English novel, to which we shall presently refer, we are nevertheless shocked by its frequent brutalities and indecencies.

  21. But the legal brutalities described are still being perpetrated, and the future is being compromised.

  22. It is always possible under such circumstances to take the victim of our brutalities in our arms and utter a few sympathetic or repentant words.

  23. Educated and thoughtful men shrink alike from the dogmas of religion and the brutalities of war.

  24. Tennyson most assuredly revolted against the brutalities of Christianity; which, by the way, are countenanced by very explicit texts in the New Testament.

  25. These submerged peoples have had to submit helplessly to the brutalities of both sets of combatants.

  26. What she saw of the brutalities of the Turkish mobilization alone makes as thrilling a tale as any that has been told since the war began.

  27. To prevent these brutalities I order that which follows: 1.

  28. She has not uttered a single word of reproach for the horrible brutalities of which the principal victims were innocent young German girls in Brussels and Antwerp.

  29. The gradual usage to the brutalities of the instinct ends by killing the sensitiveness of the inward feelings.


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