Example sentences for: callous

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

  • I wouldn't be so callous as to suggest that stalking isn't an urgent problem, fully worthy of immediate action by a Congress that can't pass a budget on time.

  • I went to one "salad bar" where not only did I not see anything that reminded me of a vegetable (and by the way, I'm intentionally going to skip the reflexive but pointlessly callous joke I could make about the customers, who I'm sure upon closer examination were lovely and admirable people), but among the "salad ingredients" being offered was a dish of chocolate pudding.

  • He tries to disarm the accusation that he was callous about executing Karla Fay Tucker by portraying his decision as an anguished crisis of conscience.

  • What matters is that the Tories seem a callous lot, and Tony Blair is a really nice chap.

  • The Standard , for example, editorializes that Republicans should support Kosovo action unless they want to become "the party of callous indifference to human suffering."


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