brutal

Example Sentences

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Hurley’s brutal training sessions do more than toughen his team up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

It’s brutal if you’re heading back to L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Most of that drop came in a brutal five-day stretch ended March 24.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

In February Torfaen Reform councillor Jason O'Connell, who has since been named as the party's number one candidate in Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr for the Senedd election, described the party's vetting process as "brutal" and "intrusive".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

The brutal era of sharecropping and Jim Crow was ending, but what followed was persistent unemployment and worsening poverty.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson