RUTHLESS in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for RUTHLESS, such as:

1. Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly.
2. None knew who belonged to this ruthless society.
3. They were caring again with a cold ruthless bitterness.
4. They have shown a ruthless disregard for basic human rights.
5. I denounced myself as a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUTHLESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ruthless
 a.  pitiless; cruel; having no compassion or pity; merciless
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  With a ruthless singleness of purpose, he desired his own house, his own plantation, his own horse, his own slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  He had risen to prominence in the campaigns in Tennessee and the West, and his reputation as a determined and ruthless fighter was growing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  They were caring again with a cold ruthless bitterness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  They seemed so predatory, so ruthless and yet, twined in her skirt, so broken, so helpless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
5  Then a cry of vengeance burst at once, as it might be, from the united lips of the nation; a frightful augury of their ruthless intentions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
6  During this moment of tumult, the most ruthless deeds of war were performed on the fragments of the tree, with as much apparent ferocity as if they were the living victims of their cruelty.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
7  But when the hunter reached the scene of the ruthless massacre, the ledge was tenanted only by the dead.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
8  In short, any eye at all practised in the signs of a frontier warfare might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results which attend an Indian vengeance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
9  This advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless hunting.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  I denounced myself as a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER
11  None knew who belonged to this ruthless society.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
12  I know it, for now and then I hear a far-away muffled sound as of mattock and spade, and, whatever it is, it must be the end of some ruthless villainy.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
15  "You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
Example Sentence:
1  I love the men flower heart also due, so I be more affectionate more ruthless.
2  They have shown a ruthless disregard for basic human rights.
3  For years now, the people have been oppressed by a ruthless dictator.
4  He was portrayed as a ruthless opportunist who exploited the publicity at every opportunity.
5  The rule of the strongest and most ruthless is what happens when honest citizens are deprived of the right and ability to defend themselves.
6  Fearing being grilled ruthlessly by the secret police, Masha faced her inquisitor with trepidation.