brute

Example Sentences

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Previously understood as a notorious brute even by 19th-century standards, Heathcliff now exhibits signs of having earned perfect grades in today’s campus training modules.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 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

In high school, Raymond could afford to get by with brute force.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2025

Those in the emigrant generations who could not reassert brute survival died young and far from home.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston