6 sentences with 'cruel'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cruel and other words derived from it.
• « Her father, a cruel man, decided to kill her and during a canoe trip he cut off her fingers and legs and threw the corpse into the sea. »
• « A provision is said to be draconian when it is harsh, cruel or too severe for the circumstances. »
• « As noted in the last chapter, the Mesopotamians regarded the gods as cruel and arbitrary and thought that human existence was not a very pleasant experience. »
• « For the Greeks, the term tyrant did not originally mean an unjust or cruel ruler, since many tyrants managed to resolve major political crises on behalf of the hoplites and, at the same time, succeeded in placating the aristocrats. »