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Example sentences for "brutes"

Lexicographically close words:
brutalizes; brutalizing; brutally; brute; bruted; brutish; brutishness; brutum; brycht; bryd
  1. There is neither right nor wrong among the brutes because they have no moral sense.

  2. But the brutes were wet with sweat and as wild as deer.

  3. A gush of gratitude came from his darkened heart; he felt that he almost loved the prowling brutes that had drawn his soul out of the quagmire of silence in which it had been sunk.

  4. The docile, well-trained brutes stood still until Koos went up and caught them.

  5. In less than two hours we dashed up to the yards, those you see down yonder, just in time to drive off the black brutes as they were rushing the house.

  6. They that so highly think themselves above All other men, themselves can only love; 50 Reason and virtue, all that man can boast O'er other creatures, in those brutes are lost.

  7. Who with His breath His image did inspire, Expects it should foment a nobler fire; Not love which brutes as well as men may know, But love like His, to whom that breath we owe.

  8. Keep these brutes away from us while we change.

  9. There is a measure now before Congress which, if it passes, will legislate brutes like you and your captain off the American quarter-deck by its educational conditions.

  10. The six fierce brutes that remained were fed and harnessed, and he again ran over the details of his load to assure himself that nothing was missing.

  11. They were fierce, untamed brutes who snarled at each other and fought on occasion, until the stinging lash descended on their thick coats to remind them of the terrible master behind the sled.

  12. Our horses have been smelling wolves, but the brutes will not approach our fire.

  13. They had gone upon a cruise against the wolves, and had killed the brutes until they were tired and had no more strength to use their arms.

  14. Bless my soul, if I did not think, at one time, it was after the liquor the brutes were running!

  15. How many of these detested brutes we killed I cannot say, but we did not leave off until our hands had become powerless from exhaustion, and our tomahawks were so blunted as to be rendered of no use.

  16. There are plenty of brutes in the world that one has to talk to.

  17. And I don't call it riding to sit astride a set of brutes with every deformity under the sun.

  18. I dismounted and tried to lead him, but found he was one of those brutes that will not follow.

  19. One of these brutes once sprang upon a gallant friend of mine, tumbling horse and rider over with a charge that came and was past in an instant.

  20. We were told by the people at the waggons that the brutes had passed some time before we returned to lunch, and, having a good supply of eland-beef, the Boers thought that some bacon would be very palatable.

  21. So they went away resolved to be twice the brutes that they were before, and they named themselves Culture-brutes.

  22. The brutes of the swamp and the field, who gathered round them and listened, found nothing new or unfamiliar in the message of the poets.

  23. I, jumping upon the carronade to look out, 'those brutes are swimming after the deer, and the stream is bringing them down on our stern!

  24. The frenzied brutes rushed on down the hill, the old coach bumping and swaying wildly behind them.

  25. He was agitated through and through, and his wild yells and feeble handling of the reins only made the frightened brutes go faster and faster.

  26. Paddy Maloney jumped down and proceeded to batter the brutes vigorously with a waddy.

  27. What Fools the Beasts are, and what Brutes the Men are.

  28. Calling and whistling to the mules, the sagacious brutes came regularly to the spot where their pack was deposited, were in turn loaded, and sent on after the bell mules in advance.

  29. There is an immense difference between brutes and man, in the scale of beings.

  30. The very brutes possessed all the elements of human intelligence; to think was only to feel more perfectly.

  31. Afterwards, of course, but I was shut up in school, writing three hundred disgusting lines of Virgil, or I'd have got the brutes off some way.

  32. Take my word for it," said cook, "that child have a been treated shameful by those great nasty brutes of big boys.

  33. By constantly following this way of life, they lose much of their humanity, and become as savage, nearly, as the very brutes they hunt.

  34. What a dolt you must be to imagine that any man in the world could possibly tell you which of those two brutes was likely to be the winner!

  35. The brutes have not attained to our complexity of brain; ideas are only rudimentary with them, and they decide the question of superiority by rude methods.

  36. The genuine collie is an ideal pet, but the cross-grained fleecy brutes bred for the show-bench are good neither for one thing nor another.

  37. Cats and pigs appear to have been the first creatures to earn the protective affection of man; but, ah, what a cohort of brutes and birds have followed!

  38. While I gently ridicule the people who keep useless brutes to annoy their neighbours, I would rather see even the hideous, useless pug kept to wheeze and snarl in his old age than see no pets at all.

  39. Margery was put to bed and Kent and Lydia were mentioned as murderers, low-down brats and coarse little brutes by Mrs. Marshall, who ended by threatening them with the police.

  40. And I saw the poor starving, diseased brutes and I cursed my white breed.

  41. Poor brutes of Indians," said John Levine, refilling his pipe.

  42. The brutes hear us, and are retreating," he said.

  43. The brutes snarled, and one of them made a spring at me; but I shot him, and knocked the other over with the butt of my rifle, thereby saving a charge of powder and lead.

  44. I belave one of the brutes is capable of making that noise.

  45. I fired at the nearest white wolf and knocked the creature over, but this did not avail my poor steed, for in an instant he was surrounded and pulled to the ground, where the dreadful brutes quickly destroyed him.

  46. These noises, I may here say, were caused by the wolves; for the savage brutes occasionally came near the settlement, attracted by the sheep and cattle which the inhabitants had brought with them.

  47. We must beat a retreat, Roger, or the brutes will be upon us.

  48. Directly I killed a white wolf, the yelling brutes set upon him and tore him to pieces.

  49. So entranced were they, that the brutes actually did not discover us; nor, so far as we could see, were they making any attempt to reach Mike.

  50. Already it has slain thousands of my people, or reduced them to a state lower than the brutes which perish; and I know not whether my young men would resist the temptation were it placed in their way.

  51. Now, Iris, you will recollect We were by older science taught That when brutes think, they don't reflect.

  52. The brutes looked unaccountably shaggy; they turned to run at the approach of their master, and did not stop until they had passed the gateway of which Sheddad was in quest.

  53. There being nobody to hinder, no one to welcome them, Sheddad and Almena tied their brutes to the glittering handles of the brazen gates, and proceeded to take sovereign possession of what they considered their indisputable domain.

  54. Bestial females rivaled with one another in winning their male brutes by intoxicating drinks, which they made them swallow in great quantities, drinking themselves until they reeled with inebriation.

  55. I began to suspect that the Turks were not such brutes as they are popularly supposed to be in Europe.

  56. This misadventure taught them the lesson that in Eastern countries it is safer to trust to brutes than to men; the boatmen were summarily dismissed, and the ladies once more joined the caravan.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.