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Example sentences for "brute"

Lexicographically close words:
brutalize; brutalized; brutalizes; brutalizing; brutally; bruted; brutes; brutish; brutishness; brutum
  1. He was the progeny of the brute and shared his destiny.

  2. The descent of man will no longer suggest the inference that as the progeny of the brute man must share his destiny, but rather the thought that "it doth not yet appear what we shall be.

  3. Man, no longer made in the divine image, could lay no claim to a divine inheritance; not fallen, but rising out of his brute inheritance, he had no need for the divine mercy.

  4. But, for some unaccountable reason, my brute of a memory chooses to play the fool.

  5. The brute "bucked" with me from the foot of Montgomery street to the Occidental Hotel.

  6. Just the wrong side the water the brute gave a swerve, And he carried me out, half across the course-curve.

  7. I wish from my heart that the brute would keep wide.

  8. The poor beasts of the forest, being brute and dull of intellect, are worth pitying for this very reason.

  9. This liquor has the power of taking away your consciousness, so as to make you lose the control of your thoughts and behave like a brute beast, giving your enemies the trouble of laughing at you.

  10. A brute of a dog that had given me a lot of trouble got the first shot right between his eyes, when down he went without a groan.

  11. They have been treated worse than the brute beasts of the field by those they had to look up to, or to whom, according to military law, they were compelled to show respect.

  12. I should send the little brute off to the Dogs' Home.

  13. He led it here, and you just ought to have seen the brute dance and make ugly eyes when first Albert and then I tried to get astride of it.

  14. Evidently they regarded the horrid, thick-necked brute as their champion.

  15. The silly brute didn't know he was our bull, you see, but I reckon he'll remember now, and act accordingly.

  16. Vic says I oughtn't to tell people this, as it signifies I'm still in close touch with brute creation.

  17. That brute has ill-treated her enough, and he shan’t have another chance.

  18. They would make the most docile, powerful, and affectionate of all slaves; but they come very soon to their growth, and are but shortlived, in that way approximating to the rest of the brute creation.

  19. The change was so sudden and comical, that we all burst out laughing; although, when I came to reflect on the danger I had run, it required all my love of horses to prevent me from shooting the brute upon the spot.

  20. And for the sake of my rising family, I have an aversion at its being known that they were bred among creatures that must still be conceived to be of the brute creation.

  21. It represented to their eyes the fabric of Roman law, the wonderful creation of centuries, which the northern conquerors were utterly unable to emulate, and made them feel how inferior brute force was to civil wisdom and equity.

  22. While, deserting what belongs to us, and aiming at what is beyond us, we add our own sins to the brute strength of barbarians.

  23. The brute has evidently had quite as much as he requires for the present.

  24. No," said Mr Gregory, "the brute is dying.

  25. There can be none in the brute hardness of the new carving.

  26. They show that from a level little higher than the brute man has attained to what he is; but is this enough to guarantee his continuous rise?

  27. The brute was hardly dead, much distended by the prey, and the mother was standing beside it.

  28. They are erected by dint of sheer brute strength, the lever being the only aid.

  29. Held him over the edge and wanted to let him drop; but the brute suggested that somebody would find him on the rocks.

  30. All the same, I'm not going to see white traders murdered and the swamp-belt given up to a cruel brute who would rule it on the African plan.

  31. You have given me a chance I don't deserve to get straight again, and I'd be a meaner brute than I am if I let it go.

  32. Somehow it was unthinkable the brute and his comrade should engage in quiet talk.

  33. In universal nature this clear shown Not needeth proof; to prove it were, I wis, To prove the beauteous world excels the brute abyss.

  34. But Goldsmith entered there under circumstances that were irksome to him, and, to add to the matter, he met with a brute in his tutor.

  35. Radcliffe, not the brute Wilder, he requested his recommendation to be given to him under a feigned name, being ashamed of hereafter having his present condition associated with his own.

  36. And Chortles is brute force, and he's going to send me down--what am I to do?

  37. He's as stubborn as a brute beast, but his mother's a decent woman.

  38. On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force.

  39. I hope you do not think me a brute about your proof-sheets.

  40. Their early history has been generally found, when opportunity has been afforded of impartially examining it, to be a mere tissue of absurd legends; compared to which, the history of the settlement of King Brute in Britain is authentic.

  41. Scotland, a brute was raised that he was dead, and secretlie buried at Reading.

  42. All the brute seemed roused in the drunken man.

  43. What a brute I have been," he exclaimed, "to pour my ugly story into your ears!

  44. Brute strength," Smith said, "is what you want on Wortan.

  45. Brute strength is what we want in Wortan," said the instructor, smoothing his black uniform.

  46. Well, let me imagine that it is bluff, anyway: for brute as a man might be, I won't give you credit for being such a brute as to keep that poor old lady undergoing the torments of hell through a deliberate silence of yours.

  47. How the brute lay floundering in the dust on the plains of Villalar, turning up the whites of her eyes, the blood streaming thick from her dishonest nose!

  48. It is at these that the relative values of the forces opposed--brute strength and human skill--are displayed in truer and more speaking contrast.

  49. Contemporary records, together with the scenes depicted on coinage, represent rather a mere massacre of men by brute force; and such cannot bear any relation to the conditions that govern the national fiesta of Spain to-day.

  50. The ambulance clatters up at a canter, the poor rider is pushed in out of sight, and the ladies in the stand say how unlucky they are--that brute of a horse falling after they backed him.

  51. A horse that is a crack camp-horse in one man's hands may be a hopeless brute in the hands of another.

  52. What is that fiddle-headed brute doing in the ring?

  53. Humanity demands that the brute creation should be protected by the Legislature.

  54. Aiming at the same end by different means, our benevolent artist here steps forth as the instructor of youth, the friend to mercy, and advocate of the brute creation.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brute" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animal; atrocious; barbarian; barbaric; barbarous; beast; beastly; beldam; bestial; bloodthirsty; bloody; bodily; bomber; brutal; brute; cannibal; carnal; coarse; creature; critter; cruel; demon; demoniacal; destroyer; devil; devilish; diabolic; diabolical; dragon; dumb; earthy; fallen; fell; feral; ferocious; fiend; fiendish; fierce; firebrand; fleshly; fury; goon; gorilla; gross; hellish; hood; hoodlum; hyena; incendiary; infernal; inhuman; instinctive; killer; lapsed; madcap; main; material; materialistic; mindless; monster; murderous; ogre; orgiastic; physical; revolutionary; ruthless; sadistic; sanguinary; savage; shark; stupid; swinish; termagant; terror; terrorist; tiger; tigress; tough; troglodyte; truculent; unchristian; uncivilized; unhuman; unspiritual; varmint; vicious; violent; virago; witch; wolf; wolfish; wrecker; zoological


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brute animals; brute force