cutthroat

Example Sentences

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Also in need of more joy: the cutthroat commercial dance industry.

From New York Times

That didn’t matter in Seattle’s swift and cutthroat housing market.

From Seattle Times

Over one five-year stretch, I poured hundreds of hours into the irradiated wasteland of Fallout 3; the cutthroat frontier of Red Dead Redemption; and the drug-addled kinetic energy of Far Cry 3.

From New York Times

In his intense, cutthroat kitchen, Aoy learns to cook expensive, elaborate meals with more emphasis on technique, shock value and price tag than she's used to.

From Salon

This is extremely unfortunate as they are now pitted against me in one of L.A.’s most cutthroat endeavors: finding an apartment.

From Los Angeles Times