Example Sentences

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Brutally bad results are – in a phrase used by several MPs – "priced in".

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

How are things with your Brutally Early Club?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Amy Schumer on working with Jennifer Coolidge: “It was the hardest I’ve laughed in my entire life. It was brutal. Brutally funny.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024

Brutally honest series on the impact of slavery in America.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023

Brutally, such is the weakness of the ordinary man, I turned the handle to go out, but my sister then raised her head.

From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon