Example sentences for: ruthlessly

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

  • Besides, even more telling than the views of academics are the images of Nixon in popular culture, where he remains resentful, paranoid, and ruthlessly power-hungry.

  • He ruthlessly spread rumors about the sanity of a 70-year-old mentor when he sought to take her state Senate seat.

  • They can't understand why the Americans aren't chasing away Saddam's soldiers, whose mission, in light of the cease-fire, has shifted from fighting the American-led alliance to ruthlessly suppressing all signs of Iraqi rebellion.

  • (As Strachey makes clear, Nightingale's fake "lady with the lamp" image as the mother of modern nursing completely obscures her real significance, which was as a ruthlessly effective administrative reformer, first of a single military hospital and later of the entire British military-hospital system.)

  • He has a paranoid fear (well, not paranoid, because it's true) that if he doesn't ruthlessly boost himself, a colleague will do him in.


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