BRUNT in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for BRUNT, such as:

1. The brunt of her argument was directed at the trade union leader.
2. Whatever might be its effect, however, she must stand the brunt of it again that very day.
3. Tom Sawyer claimed credit for painting the fence, but the brunt of the work fell on others.
4. Increasingly women are bearing the brunt of the epidemic, a pattern Mr. Annan says does terrify.
5. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRUNT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brunt
 n.  main impact or shock; main burden
Classic Sentence:
1  Lily sat silent, taking the brunt of it quietly, letting it spend itself on her to the last drop of its accumulated falseness; then, without a word, she rose and went down to her cabin.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
2  She simply left the brunt of the situation on her husband's hands, as if too absorbed in a grievance of her own to suspect that she might be the object of one herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
3  From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
4  By St Michael," answered Front-de-Boeuf, "I would thou couldst stand the whole brunt of this adventure thyself, De Bracy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Whatever might be its effect, however, she must stand the brunt of it again that very day.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  He grew still more irritable, and it was Princess Mary who generally bore the brunt of his frequent fits of unprovoked anger.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
7  He had not done so for fear Princess Mary should ask her father to give his consent, irritating him and having to bear the brunt of his displeasure without attaining her object.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
8  It is all very well for the man: he can go his ways as if nothing had happened, having had his moment of pleasure, but the girl has to bear the brunt.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
Example Sentence:
1  Increasingly women are bearing the brunt of the epidemic, a pattern Mr. Annan says does terrify.
2  Tom Sawyer claimed credit for painting the fence, but the brunt of the work fell on others.
3  The brunt of her argument was directed at the trade union leader.