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Example sentences for "cruelly"

Lexicographically close words:
cruell; cruelle; crueller; cruellest; cruellie; cruelte; crueltie; cruelties; cruelty; cruet
  1. The King, having been considered so great, was cruelly wounded by shame at his defeat.

  2. When he learned that the subjects of the latter were suffering cruelly from the oppression of his minister and that his generals were weakened by hunger, he took heart and invaded the kingdom.

  3. If he hadn't broken his word I should have thought he had acted very cruelly and--and strangely.

  4. And more than all was he haunted by the thought of her lonely death after her cruelly hard life.

  5. It has been a cruelly long parting for them, and it has told on them," she added.

  6. Mother," he whispered, "I have been cruelly deceived.

  7. Jamieson, I need not conceal from you that I believe my affairs are cruelly disarranged.

  8. We were sadly short-handed on board the frigate, or I do not believe this would have happened; but the gale was cruelly against us.

  9. It was not the only occasion on which birds, cats and pet dogs were wantonly and cruelly destroyed to vex their owners.

  10. The young women had been abused, and the older ones cruelly ill-treated.

  11. And the women cried out, and called upon God and Holy Mary to have mercy upon them; but the more they cried, the more cruelly did those Infantes beat and kick them, till they were covered with blood, and swooned away.

  12. But the Infantes heeded not what they said, and heat them cruelly with the saddle-girths, and kicked them with their spurs, so that their garments were torn, and stained with blood.

  13. Castillians began cruelly to slay them, so that King Don Sancho had pity thereof, and called out unto his people not to kill them, for they were Christians.

  14. You revenge yourself cruelly for your inability to write the history of happy homes.

  15. Madame Foullepointe laughs, and Adolphe, who intended to pay court to her, is cruelly joked by her, after having had a first last quarrel with Caroline.

  16. It needed but a glance to show them Kentuck lying there, cruelly crushed and bruised, but still holding The Luck of Roaring Camp in his arms.

  17. It would hardly do to restore her to liberty while her partisans were cruelly punished with death.

  18. He knows how I love and serve him, and Heaven knows how cruelly I have been dealt with.

  19. But for this timely arrival of troops, the peaceful little town of Minneopoli might have been laid waste, and its defenceless inhabitants cruelly butchered or carried away captive.

  20. I glided out of the room, away from the presence of the woman who had so cruelly imposed upon my helplessness.

  21. Job told Sam that his master, Jingle, had bribed the mistress of the boarding-school to deny to Mr. Pickwick that she knew him, and had then cruelly deserted the beautiful young lady for a richer one.

  22. Cruelly enough, among those who were called to the trial as witnesses, to show that Darnay had made these frequent journeys to France, were Doctor Manette and Lucie--because they had seen him on the boat during that memorable crossing.

  23. By the time he had told his story, he knew that he had been cruelly hoaxed by Jingle and Job Trotter.

  24. The wharves and public buildings existed only on the agent's map with which he had so cruelly cheated them.

  25. Steerforth had treated her cruelly and finally deserted her, and she had crept back to London heartbroken and repentant, hoping for nothing but to die within sight of those who had loved her so.

  26. Helena and Neville Landless had been born in Ceylon, where as little children they had been cruelly treated by their stepfather.

  27. The ropes that bound him cut cruelly into his flesh.

  28. I suffer cruelly from my eyes, O Prophet!

  29. The Believers were compelled to bind up their cruelly wounded feet, from which the nails were torn by the sharp stones of the Hammadas, with "ruqqah": fragments of their apparel.

  30. Being a man himself, he could not but feel for men so cruelly abandoned to the malice of their enemies.

  31. He would have been spared, and she would have been spared, the shock that had so cruelly assailed them both.

  32. I dislike cruelty--and you have behaved cruelly to Mrs. Ellmother.

  33. She accepted this cruelly appropriate nick-name as a mark of affectionate familiarity which honored a servant.

  34. Other days had passed drearily since that time; but the one day that had brought with it Cecilia's letter set past happiness and present sorrow together so vividly and so cruelly that Emily's courage sank.

  35. Do you cruelly leave me to myself, at the time of all others, when I am most in need of your sympathy?

  36. He was carried to Lima, and there, according to the vile custom of those foes of the human race, cruelly tortured and put to death.

  37. The old servant, who was sure we were both cruelly belied, lamented our unhappy fate, but poor creature she could do nothing but lament.

  38. But the calamity stops not there; she is cruelly aspersed by the world through your suggestions, and I am the person pointed at for the injurer of Mr Arnold's honour, and the destroyer of his wife's innocence.

  39. He might be pardoned if he felt some little vindictive pleasure in annoying those who had cruelly annoyed him.

  40. Few people who have had so little power to resist temptation have suffered so cruelly from remorse and shame.

  41. And yet even that union, cruelly as it had wounded the pride of the Scots, had promoted their prosperity.

  42. There are those who laugh from sheer nervous excitement; let them not lose the men they love by a lack of self-control that may be so cruelly misconstrued.

  43. When once the sport of the moment is over he leaves his prey, more or less cruelly wounded, and gaily seeks new fields for his prowess.

  44. And what was more cruelly sad and crushing and deadening than dependence?

  45. I know it," Paul said, wiping his eyes, "but you are so cruelly wronged.

  46. Yes, and she has been so since she was cruelly deserted by her lover.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruelly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agonizingly; atrociously; awfully; badly; bitterly; blatantly; cruelly; deadly; deathly; distressingly; dreadfully; excessively; excruciatingly; extravagantly; ferociously; flagrantly; frightfully; grievously; harshly; heartlessly; horribly; improperly; inexcusably; inordinately; intolerably; miserably; openly; painfully; roughly; sadly; severely; sorely; terribly; unduly