English example sentences with "cruel"

Learn how to use cruel in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

It is cruel of you to find fault with her.

The monster's smile was cruel.

Destiny is sometimes cruel.

It is cruel of him to ill-treat pets.

Eventually the cruel man was sentenced to jail.

I never thought he was capable of doing something so cruel.

It's a perfect example of cruel fate.

It is too cruel, I should say.

The people resisted their cruel ruler.

The cruel man beat the dog with a whip.

The poor people were at the mercy of the cruel dictator.

These poor people were at the mercy of the cruel dictator.

Once upon a time, there lived a cruel king.

There was once a cruel ruler in the country.

Walter was taken aback by John's cruel insult.

Can a child do such a cruel thing?

In a way, life is a cruel thing. It holds major problems in store for each one of us.

The cops are searching for clues to the cruel murder.

It was cruel of him to beat his dog.

It is because he is cruel that I dislike him.

I could not image how cruel he was at that time.

Soon after the end of World War 1, people never thought such a hateful and cruel war would break out again.

The long cruel winter at last came to an end, giving place to a gentle warm spring.

He isn't cruel to animals.

Don't be cruel to animals.

You ought not to be cruel to animals.

It was cruel of him to say such things to her.

It is cruel of him to say such things to her.

He could not bear to think of his dog being sold to that cruel man.

He was very hurt by her cruel words.

It is cruel of them to make the boy work so hard.

She appears to me to be cruel.

The people suffered under the cruel tyrant.

I think it is cruel to trap animals for fur coats.

It is cruel to mock a blind man.

I think this one has to die for the other to live. It's a cruel world.

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

It seems a cruel thing to clip a bird's wings.

Our seamen have always been famous for a matchless alacrity and intrepidity in time of danger; this has saved many a British ship, when other seamen would have run below deck, and left the ship to the mercy of the waves, or, perhaps, of a more cruel enemy, a pirate.

Murdering elephants, tigers and other endangered species is not just cruel; it's also illegal.

It was an extremely cruel war.

This cruel cold could make a man afraid of his own voice.

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

Peer helpers made the teacher's job a lot easier, but established a cruel hierarchy among the students.

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

He is a cruel person.

Maybe a child would do such a cruel thing?

Mary was cruel to Tom.

It's a cruel world.

The world is cruel.

When it comes to animals, this can't be considered as being something cruel.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Is it cruel to declaw your cat?

She's cruel and heartless.

He's cruel and heartless.

I think it's cruel to keep a cat indoors.

I think it's cruel to keep a cat inside.

Kids are cruel.

She's cruel.

He's cruel.

Stop being cruel.

Don't be cruel.

That's cruel.

Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.

Tom is cruel.

You're cruel.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave.

I wonder how someone can still defend a backward and cruel dictatorship such as that of Lukashenko, who has managed to have every one of his opponents beaten up and imprisoned. It's just beyond me !

It was cruel.

That's very cruel.

How could you be so cruel?

How can you be so cruel?

Goodbye, cruel world.

I knew Tom was cruel.

Pirates are cruel.

I dislike cruelty, even cruelty to other people, and should therefore like to see all cruel people exterminated.

It's cruel to put a live lobster into a pot of boiling water.

Life is cruel but not pointless.

Her name was Inge; she was a poor child, but proud and presuming, and with a bad and cruel disposition.

Peter the Cruel is also known as Peter the Just.

This god is cruel, nervous, and diabolic, with yellow wrinkly skin, small squinty eyes, a triangular nose, and bright teeth.

You are cruel.

Hate makes man cruel.

Why are people so cruel?

It's a cruel world out there.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Life is too cruel.

Tom was cruel.

Tom isn't cruel.

Wake up, Romanian, from your deadly slumber, in which barbaric tyrants kept you so long by force! Now or never is the time for you to have a new fate, which should command respect of even your cruel enemies.

Oh! How cruel is it to love when we are apart from the one we love!

No one has the right to be so cruel.

Tom is a cruel person.

Why do you always have to be so cruel?

Witnessing cruelty to animals, children may become cruel.

Parents shouldn't let children be cruel to animals.

Nature is cruel.

Nature is cruel and beautiful.

"Nature is cruel and beautiful... like me," said Mary.

In their cruel fury, the jingoists several times bared their bloodthirsty fangs to him.

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