brute
Example Sentences
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John Shaw, Magnus’s deputy, is a brute and a bully; Abel Walker, Magnus’s nephew, is a young innocent; Tom Hearn is a sailor who trained as a cleric and speaks the indigenous languages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Through Spear’s resurrection, “Primal” is quietly delivering a zombie drama that’s strangely life-affirming, led by a tenderhearted brute who is sensitive to the other voiceless, helpless beings around him.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026
And by the sheer brute force of its size, bond markets force both the subjects of its wrath, and the investors that rely on them, into submission.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
Unlike LIV Golf, which it has been frequently compared to, R360 does not have the brute force of Saudi Arabian state money behind it.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
I understood that by “bull” work he meant jobs that took little more than brute strength to perform.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Vocabulary lists containing brute
My Brother Sam is Dead
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Lyrical Vocabulary, Volume I
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