Example sentences for: ruthlessly

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

  • 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.

  • The picture has one of the oldest pulp plots in the business, last used to rousing effect in John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981): A convict is sprung from prison, promised liberty by an untrustworthy government in return for accomplishing a morally ambiguous task that no one else can do, given a strict deadline, and ruthlessly monitored by his ex-captors.

  • (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.)

  • is also sometimes ruthlessly funny" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Some wonder at the author's desire to explore the mind of a man who murdered so many, but most are impressed with his results.

  • Third, a ruthlessly efficient leader can win a ruthlessly efficient election and craft a ruthlessly efficient economy.


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