Sentence for cruel | Use cruel in a sentence

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  • But cruel! (8)
  • It was so cruel! (8)
  • It does seem too cruel! (9)
  • His position was really cruel! (8)
  • A cruel night! (8)
  • Ah, cruel thing! (10)
  • But surely he would never be so cruel! (8)
  • You cry: Cruel winter! (10)
  • Are you always so cruel? (8)
  • At this cruel insult Mr. (8)
  • She could not be cruel. (10)
  • But why should you be cruel? (4)
  • It was cruel to come, I know. (8)
  • Yes, the passions are cruel. (10)
  • No, hers is not a cruel nature. (4)
  • The suggestion was a cruel shock. (10)
  • But it is cruel, it is abominable. (10)
  • He must have been dreadfully cruel to her! (4)
  • It was a cruel disappointment for Jolliet. (19)
  • Then his heart smote him for so cruel a deed. (8)
  • Why was a battle risked at that cruel place! (10)
  • Mela was transported by the cruel ingratitude. (9)
  • May I deem you have not been too cruel to-day? (10)
  • But it has not been your cruel word grumpiness. (10)
  • Cruel Henrietta to persist in such a resolution! (4)
  • It seemed hatefully cruel to him to believe it. (10)
  • It seems the kindest way of doing a cruel thing. (10)
  • It seems the kindest way of doing a cruel thing. (22)
  • It was horrible, it was cruel: Richard knew that. (10)
  • Yet the garden in its bloom revived a cruel blow. (10)
  • All cruel and shameful doubt of him went out of it. (9)
  • But he was not a blackguard, not cruel, not a liar! (8)
  • It was cruel of me, and well may you shake your head. (22)
  • This was a cruel aggravation of actually straitened means. (4)
  • Would it be too cruel if they were really the same persons? (9)
  • Miss Middleton, such a blow to Sir Willoughby would be shocking, most cruel! (10)
  • But oh, what a cruel thing is a farce to those engaged in it! (2)
  • Yet to be silent would be cruel; she had intreated me to talk. (4)
  • A pitiable and cruel reception for a woman upon such a mission! (10)
  • It was weirdly living; fine and cruel, that great man-made thing. (8)
  • Was ever a punishment so cruel to the noblest of generous husbands! (10)
  • And hearing us mutter that it seemed cruel, he smiled for the third time. (8)
  • At the cruel curtness of those words, Gyp gave the tiniest start forward. (8)
  • All, all sapped of go and foresight and perseverance by a cruel Providence! (8)
  • It could be done, though, sooner than that Gyp should think him cruel to her. (8)
  • If that cruel letter were the last word, and she forced to decide between them! (8)
  • He is terrible, this coldly cruel, crafty, and masterful Odysseus of the Pacific. (2)
  • But whatever he did, or said now, would be like telling lies, or else being cruel. (8)
  • In this cruel uncertainty, she spent the next two hours, till it was nearly three. (8)
  • I have a great idea that you do not design to be cruel, when the right moment occurs. (4)
  • It was cruel enough, and the hurt went deep; but it neither crushed nor hardened her. (9)
  • It was cruel that such a blight should have come on her belief at this, of all moments. (8)
  • She supposed he could not yet leave his son, but it was a cruel, a terrible delay to her. (4)
  • She did not know how he would bear it, the disappointment, and the cruel hurt to his pride. (9)
  • In those cruel words he heard the murmur of the centuries breaking upon the shore of eternity. (1)
  • She admired his cruel self-possession pitiably, as she contrasted her own husky tones with it. (10)
  • Her own woeful experiences had been given to the hero in exchange for his story of cruel parents. (10)
  • Her pursuers surged after her like a great heap of limbs, a polypus with hair and noses and cruel teeth. (12)
  • And yet surely Life could not be so cruel as to have given her such happiness meaning to take it from her! (8)
  • Something in the cruel hang of his threatening hatchet jaw silenced many in the act of confirming the assertion. (10)
  • The disappointment was so cruel that the tears came into her eyes and ran down her face, which she averted from him. (9)
  • How grandly and confidently they go sweeping on like long blue waves of ocean chasing one another to the cruel rocks! (7)
  • To see him thus, living, yet not living, with the spirit driven from him by a cruel blow, perhaps never to come back! (8)
  • We can err very easily in youth; and to find ourselves shooting at a false mark uncontrollably must be a cruel thing. (10)
  • Ready for anything; venal through and through; stopping at nothing; cruel by nature, and consistent through lack of mind. (12)
  • Why had they called her, the ropedancer, back to a life which henceforward could offer her nothing save want and cruel suffering? (5)
  • He came; and he would have been delighted to shew his uniform there too, had not cruel custom prohibited its appearance except on duty. (4)
  • It cannot wound him now to speak of the cruel deformity which came upon him in his boyhood, and haunted all his after days with suffering. (9)
  • The Indians of the party were indignant at not being able to torture the prisoners unhindered, for the French-Canadian leaders were not cruel by nature. (19)
  • That Providence should select her sweetest moments to deal her wounds, was cruel; but the Countess just then distinctly heard Mr. George Uplift ask Miss Carrington. (10)

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Definition of cruel:

  • cruel, kr’el, adj. disposed to inflict pain, or pleased at suffering: void of pity, merciless, savage: severe. | adj. cru’el-heart’ed, delighting in cruelty: hard-hearted: unrelenting. | adv. cru’elly. | ns. cru’elness (_obs._); cru’elty. (0)

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