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Example sentences for: cruel

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

Damn the myopic but all-seeing eyes of that news-ferret Cramer for having the cruel wit to reduce him to an onomatopoeia.
Advance word has been cruel to the actors, but advance word has it only half right.
Lenny Bruce built a routine around the idea that repeating the word "nigger" over and over and over very, very fast could strip it of its cruel power, reducing it to an impotent sound.
His cruel streak extended to the woman he married, a beautiful physics student named Alicia who was awed by this "genius with a penis."
Thank heaven for the rustics and for the final act, the wedding-night performance of "The most Lamentable Comedy and most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisby," which even Hoffman can't completely screw up.