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Cruel in sentence

686 examples of Cruel in a sentence

Kids were so cruel.
But it might seem like a kind of cruel or glib suggestion when it comes to these more profound regrets.
And it's even cruel to think of anything like this.
It's cruel to offer him a job knowing that he's going to fail."
His answer was brutal, cruel and inhumane.
This is such a cruel and familiar problem that it might come as a surprise that it has a simple solution.
Ah, wicked, cruel fate!
It seems like when I tell that story of Brian to my class, a lot of them want to come up after class and tell me about their similar experience, how a teacher shut them down, or how a student was particularly cruel to them.
They're cruel even to their own supporters.
What a cruel thing for a subject to do to young people, weed them out.
Are they just background noise from a soundtrack stuck on repeat, when people say things like, "Kids can be cruel."
You've got a cruel sense of humor, TED.
It's actually a kind of cruel trick of evolution that we simply don't have a brain that seems to be wired well enough to understand itself.
And kids can be cruel.
He was puzzled by the thought: "How could anyone be this cruel?
And hundreds of thousands lost their souls and their mental health due to this cruel and traumatic experience.
Is he telling us to just go and find cruel women?
They face a cruel situation of no choice.
Changes for the worse begin with the cruel reality that we now have more old people and fewer young people than at any time in the past.
People say children are cruel, but I was never made fun of as a child or an adult.
RNG: The prohibition in our constitution of cruel and unusual punishments was a response to a pamphlet circulated in 1764 by the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria.
Cesare Beccaria: As punishments become more cruel, the minds of men, which like fluids always adjust to the level of the objects that surround them, become hardened, and after a hundred years of cruel punishments, breaking on the wheel causes no more fear than imprisonment previously did.
Whatever is unfortunate in war, is severely so indeed, and whatever, on the contrary, is called good fortune, is a savage and a cruel good fortune, an ungenerous happiness deriving its existence from another's woe.
Known as castrati, their light, angelic voices were renowned throughout Europe, until the cruel procedure that created them was outlawed in the 1800s.
It's my belief that abstract economic theory that denies the needs of community or denies the contribution that community makes to economy is shortsighted, cruel and untenable.
However cruel, however ruthless you can think this is it's a great design, and it is miles away from the fancy furniture, but still, it's part of my same field of passion.
Why would a handsome, successful man like that ever go out with a loser like you?" Shocking, right, that a friend could be so cruel?
In Asia, for example, media outlets reported that desperate patients are obtaining organs from the cruel black market.
Granted, it was before social media, but people could still comment online, e-mail stories, and, of course, e-mail cruel jokes.
Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day; listen as I confess my love for the president, and, of course, my heartbreak; listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth; listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself, a self I don't even recognize.
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