Example sentences for: cruelly

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

  • ). A "Talking Horse," in the story of that name, turns out to be a half-man or centaur named Abramovitz, cruelly disguised as an authentic horse and forced to entertain circus audiences with pathetic jokes.

  • Somewhat cruelly, she is reported to have told him, “Don’t cry like a woman for something you couldn’t defend as a man.”

  • The proximity of New World '60s hedonism puts a sort of lunar spell on Pearl (Diane Lane), a 31-year-old mother of two whose own "summer of love" was cruelly brief.

  • It is, at worst, cruelly deceptive not to make it clear from the title (or a subtitle) that the book's focus is British slang.

  • He fell in love with another Slade-trained painter called Patricia Preece, whose "high heels and straight walk" gave Stanley, as he cruelly confided to Hilda, "a sexual itch."


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