cruelty

Example Sentences

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Sometimes it’s the chaos, not the cruelty, that’s the point.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

"By rolling potatoes, you get all of the fun and the tradition but just without the animal cruelty."

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

It was like “The Truman Show” mixed with “Twelve Angry Men,” or a segment of “Candid Camera” stretched into a series, or Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal,” minus the neuroses and cruelty.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

No deliberate cruelty wounds this dreamy girl, only carelessness and the cataclysm of her mother’s death, which signals “the last day of childhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

I thought about this many times after I became a teacher, and I told myself I’d never be that person who encourages or allows that kind of cruelty, for any reason.”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove