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    Use "brute" in a sentence

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    brute


    1. This was the sum total of my life for four days: mute acceptance punctuated by brief moments of dumb, brute defiance


    2. But could they have gone the next step ahead in the evolution of humans as a colonial species? Had they evolved beyond the need for brute coercion to make the cells work as a part in a greater organism?


    3. The Roman Empire came to be by brute force


    4. and the board will soon be retiring that sadistic brute,


    5. that lust is a brute thing done to us,


    6. before the brute creatures


    7. "Ah, Kelvin, we're in Heaven now," she said, waving a finger, "and such brute things don't work any more


    8. In the split second it took them to rise, K’nada sang out and the brute and his cronies were up against the wall with him at their throats


    9. This isn't the brute menace meted out by the muscle-bound barman at the club; this is the real thing


    10. Tetloan’s form was still far from perfect, but like the One Elf taught him; what he lacked in perfection, he could compensate for with brute force and power

    11. ‘The brute claimed the boy was


    12. ‘Why would the brute do that?’ For a moment it


    13. There were some skills in which the boy had no equal, mainly those involving brute force


    14. But in all honesty, I hardly knew the brute


    15. What did brute males matter? The only thing that counted was The Maiden’s Odyssey


    16. that brute of a lady, as your dad and it was all a dud


    17. Tragus had made her lead them to the pen, where she’d had a good view of the brute


    18. Clenching her teeth, she braced herself once more for the brute force sure to break upon her


    19. That was said to be achieved using brute force, ruining rivals' campaign tours and even threatening people into voting for whomever it was that was giving her the money


    20. They relied on brute force rather than aerodynamics to stay airborne, but brute force was something they had plenty of

    21. It is a brute fact, which can never be wished away, that not all of those who were once beaten or molested will grow up to become beaters and molesters


    22. Opponents agreed; hardly anyone wanted the streets filled with rioting protesters, but peaceful demonstrations should not be impeded with brute force


    23. A few minutes later, the nasty brute came back with another pirate in tow


    24. The prompt action of Governor Maxwell at the final palaver settled the matter - diplomacy had conquered brute force and cunning


    25. Using brute strength, she pulled the large figure twenty feet across the littered deck and perhaps even dislocated his shoulder along the way


    26. I did notice my black constables could throw hand grenades twice as far as us and used only brute power to do so


    27. "Good boy, come! Bother the brute! He'll wake up the whole household!


    28. Behold, I shall make My words in the mouths of My prophet’s fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them! For they liken My prophets to predators, and speak of My messengers as though they were brute beasts risen up from the past, as snakes rearing their heads across the ages


    29. Lincoln's record on American Indians, though limited by his focus on the Civil War, is a mixture of neglect, brute force, and attempts to bring better treatment for Natives


    30. From Mike’s accounts, she had pictured a big, burly brute, but the cop turned out to be just a midget Indian, dressed like a circus clown in one of those multi-colored jackets the tourists were always buying

    31. “Unhand me, you brute!” she squealed, as I put one hand in the small of her back and one hand up on the nape of her neck


    32. The brute that was carrying Jade threw her, now unconscious, onto the ground next to me, and then the men formed a circle around us


    33. When I saw that brute knock you down, I came to save you


    34. Ethan noticed a big brute of a man sitting in the co-driver’s seat


    35. The brute looked at him as if examining a weird kind of exotic fly; it was a distant, focused stare


    36. Her eyes couldn’t believe what they saw as Loran charged at her with his paddle in an overhand swing that caught the club arm of the brute who still held her in a chokehold as her champion’s airborne body collided with the flesh of her and the bone of her assailant


    37. While he patiently took note of the healing force, Jason hatched a plan that would capture the services of the brute


    38. long snouted brute moved in closer for a sniff, huge swathes of


    39. Chin prodded it with his stick to make sure but the brute was


    40. In the absence of paramilitary forces, observers and media persons one can ensure one’s success by sheer brute force

    41. There is only the gathering darkness of brute force in which the “living Constitution” has completed its natural life cycle, and the Civil War has won a great battle


    42. I recall many hot blistering Delhi days when I would use all my remaining strands of power to transform, my eyes willing, warning Jacques to let me go, but the stubborn brute wouldn’t have it, saying instead that my death wouldn’t be on his conscious


    43. His size, his sheer brute force and the grace with which he moved was unexplainable, almost too magnificent for words


    44. He exuded power and control without looking brute


    45. Now, if the multiverse hypothesis were to fail, then this would leave us with two other choices: either an unknown-unknown explanation—that is, the universe is a brute fact, a physical necessity, and that is the end of the story—or the traditional deist or theist explanation


    46. Just a brute fact


    47. Smart Force Attack is the advanced Brute Force Attack


    48. The monster grabbed the umbrella and broke it in half with brute force, stopping it


    49. “You are an ungrateful brute! Is this the price of letting you live with us and treating you like a true brother?”


    50. The blacksmith has tied them well, but a combination of desperation and brute force at last gets the scribe free













































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    Synonyms for "brute"

    animal animate being beast brute creature fauna savage wildcat wolf beastly bestial brutal brutish cruel irrational unreasoning sensual mammal quadruped ruffian hun freak degenerate

    "brute" definitions

    a cruelly rapacious person


    a living organism characterized by voluntary movement


    resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility