cruelly

Example Sentences

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"I will do everything I can to ensure women and girls can live free from fear and harm - something Sarah was so cruelly denied."

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

It was the look of a young man who had just been cruelly pushed around by someone with more power.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

I could grab another espresso to cruelly dunk my Boldúmen, but I have a better idea.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026

But the fourth a soul match with Alfred Steele, the president of Pepsi-Cola, which was cut cruelly short after four years by his death in 1959 from a heart attack.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Their legs were tied together so that they could hardly hobble, and their hoofs were cruelly overgrown, so that they looked like rams’ horns or curly skates.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White