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Example sentences for "ruthlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
rute; ruthe; ruther; ruthful; ruthless; ruthlessness; ruti; rutile; ruts; rutted
  1. He tried to force on these subjects whom he never understood an iron autocratic rule, ruthlessly crushing their tenacious spirit of independence.

  2. Its light was a little like the soft rays of the Venetian lamp that had shone in the Sherrill garden, but Carl ruthlessly put the memory aside.

  3. But very soon brother Tom was ruthlessly dropped out of the ritual, and neither threats nor persuasion could induce her to re-establish him.

  4. I have lived too long with only this one hope to sustain me, to have it ruthlessly wrested from me at this late day.

  5. But he was not quick enough, for the other ruthlessly set his foot upon it, crushing it flat and destroying all its beauty.

  6. How dreadful it seems that hearts who so yearn for these darlings are ruthlessly deprived of them, while other children are remorselessly deserted, and left to the doubtful charity of a cold world.

  7. Now that he was convinced that he could never win her, he was prepared to ruthlessly crush her, with all possible despatch, and his plans had long been matured to this end.

  8. If ordered to be taken, it was carried to the gaping mouth of the tunnel, and ruthlessly thrust into the bowels of the earth.

  9. I saw them there, despoiled of their jewels, like flowers from which the beautiful colored petals had been ruthlessly plucked.

  10. From his back, shoulders, and chest the brutal negro ruthlessly tore pieces, holding them up to the assembled court in triumph, while the air was filled with the nauseating odour of burning flesh.

  11. We were driven forward to the doom to which the inhuman enemy of the Naya of Mo had so ruthlessly consigned us.

  12. Being out simply and ruthlessly to kill, and not to capture, four of the newcomers from Bennett polished off the cruiser's two attackers in very short order.

  13. Ruthlessly the Lens was giving Virgil Samms the uncompromisingly exact English equivalent of the Palainian's every thought.

  14. Possibly there is still room for recollections that have frankly been written for publication before age has too greatly blurred the outline of memory or distance eliminated too ruthlessly the unimportant.

  15. Then she had gone rapidly and ruthlessly to work as though she had been planning just what she was to do.

  16. But Augusta ruthlessly dragged him up through the sand and the dust to the grass.

  17. He felt that Augusta had every right to be hurt by his ruthlessly grabbing and mutilating to his own purposes her first little heart-wrung work.

  18. Prince Pojarski, with the advance guard of the Russian army, had just arrived on the Sretenka when the Poles and Germans fell ruthlessly upon the citizens.

  19. A Beethoven, and even a Mozart symphony, no longer means a rigorous execution, in which the measure is ruthlessly hammered out by the conductor, but the melodic and emotional curve is followed and the tempo fluctuates.

  20. The romantic story of "I am only passing through Paris," which he is reported to have said in after years, has been ruthlessly shorn of its sentiment.

  21. These victims of the so-called Popish Plot were, however, amply and ruthlessly avenged.

  22. But this course is impracticable on the present occasion, so we boldly and ruthlessly assault the tree with an axe we have procured.

  23. He should not love any one else; or, if he could--poor Barbara's heart was ruthlessly torn open and revealed unto her consciousness.

  24. Emily, who, if her wish had been a broom, would have ruthlessly swept away those lacy cobwebs clinging to the hill-sides.

  25. Oh, I forgot to tell you, he'd shaken hands with the Mock Dragon, and shunted him off just as ruthlessly as he did the boy.

  26. A short time ago the poppy made every turn brilliant, but to-day imperial edicts, ruthlessly enforced, are saving the Chinese unwillingly from themselves, and the poppy has disappeared from sight.

  27. The preparations consisted usually in stirring up the dust of ages on the floor, a proceeding I did not like, and in ruthlessly tearing out the paper that covered the lattice opening, of which I much approved.

  28. Much damage has ruthlessly been done to the niches and canopies at the side.

  29. The canopy of tabernacle work has been ruthlessly destroyed, together with the major part of the easternmost section.

  30. Restoration was necessary because no access to the chapel could be obtained when the choir was all pewed, and the eastern end was ruthlessly cut away.

  31. The points of the pendant have been ruthlessly destroyed.

  32. He died full of honours and understanding; and Westminster Abbey afforded him a grave, from which he was ruthlessly ejected at the Restoration.

  33. Perrin says four hundred children were afterwards found in the cavern, stifled, in the arms of their dead mothers, and that not fewer than three thousand persons were thus ruthlessly destroyed.

  34. In one, so many women and children were suffocated; in another, so many perished of cold and hunger; in a third, so many were ruthlessly put to the sword.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruthlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrociously; cruelly; ferociously; harshly; heartlessly; roughly