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Example sentences for: brunt

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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is taking the brunt of editorial criticism for questioning the bombing and Clinton's motives.
Portugal’s citizens, overburdened with taxes, bore the brunt of the king’s extravagances.
But because of a deliberate British policy, the Irish bore the brunt.
The brunt of these cuts will be felt most in Wayne County where according to the census some 333,000 poor people live, the largest concentration of poverty in the state.
The areas east of Tiananmen Square along Chang’an Avenue and northeast up the Third Ring Road (both sections of the vast Chaoyang District) have received the brunt of Beijing’s modernization.