Example sentences for: brute

How can you use “brute” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Whether Greta Garbo actually ever said, I want to be alone (she did), is of little consequence in the larger scheme of things; but the world consists of many parts, including many smaller--even infinitesimal--things, and we must not turn our noses up at the exact wording of Neil Armstrong's moon quotation: at least it was in English, and one need not try to explain that in Et tu, Brute , the last word is not the English word brute but the vocative case of Latin Brutus and then go off into the paroxysmal grammar of Latin to explain what a vocative is.

  • Brute strength, without aid of machinery, carved flat surfaces out of the mountains, and settlers built the terraces — still seen today — on the steep slopes.

  • All the obituaries note his legendary training regimen and brute strength, packed into a 5' 10'', 204-pound frame.

  • "Broaddrick's story is believable because of its wretched familiarity," wrote columnist Michael Kelly, citing Clinton's "piggish behavior" with Lewinsky as evidence that he could be a "brute."

  • Every great city is constructed around a principle all its own--a principle of brute strength in one case, of sensuous delicacy in another, of majesty somewhere else, and mad chaos elsewhere.


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