Example Sentences

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I told one of my best friends, who began texting me weekly with messages of concern that seemed hurtfully casual to me: loaded with typos and slang.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2020

Thieves and urban explorers have carted off polka-dot mushrooms, a pair of cement lions and, most hurtfully, pieces of the golden-hued path that runs through the park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 2015

My time is limited, and I don’t think I should be forced to be friends with this person out of politeness, but I also don’t want to be a jerk and hurtfully reject him outright.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2015

Sean Parker had been quietly, hurtfully ousted from the company after an email was unearthed in which he referred to file-sharers as pirates, something Napster's lawyers were always careful to deny.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2013

He never undertook to make law upon the Bench, but he perceived with a far-sighted vision what rule of law was likely to operate beneficially or hurtfully to the Republic.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie