Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Here is Wilde’s letter to the editor, later published as a pamphlet under the title Children in Prison: And Other Cruelties of Prison Life:

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018

Jon Chapman, who manages Stornoway and hotly tipped newcomers Wild Swim, remembers the first gig played by another of his bands, Various Cruelties.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2013

When Various Cruelties supported Kasabian," says their manager Jon Chapman, "we only did a few arenas, but it had a massive effect.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2013

Belief in witches—Survival of water ordeal—Witches turned into hares— Cruelties practised on witches—Bishop Jewel on the “evil eye”— Fairies—Berkshire popular superstitions—Field-names—Homes of famous men—Washington Irving’s description of an English village—Rural exodus—Conclusion.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Whilst all my Cruelties they seem t' upbraid, They pardon too the Faults themselves have made.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague