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• This is a problem that needs to be solved mentally, not with brute force.From the entry mentally
• He has no boxing skills; he won the bout with brute strength.From the entry brute strength
• We lifted the car by brute force.From the entry brute force
• "It's a brute force method," said Clifford Young, the president of U.S. public affairs at Ipsos.2023 July 12, Andrew Fischer, “Polls Were Great in 2022. Can They Repeat Their Success in 2024?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry nonignorable
• How commonplace our political leaders' overt displays of baboon-like "brute virility".2021 June 15, The Canberra Times, page 37. From the entry Tarzanism
• A brute emotional reflex to the actus reus, the bad act (‘She killed her husband!2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, page 610. From the entry actus reus
• These tubs when derailed had to be lifted on with sheer brute strength.2010, Derek Hollows, Voices in the Dark: Pony Talk and Mining Tales, page 79. From the entry braffin
• There were some advantages to being the older sister; sometimes you could use brute force.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry brute force
• Brute fact is amenable to ideas only through an order that is projected onto it.2008: Charles-Édouard “Le Corbusier” Jeanneret-Gris [aut.] and John Goodman [tr.], Toward an Architecture, pages 101–102 (Frances Lincoln…. From the entry brute fact
• "They will know something is wrong, for the brute would not willingly have left her side.1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji. From the entry monsterling
• Brute force can get you into any apartment if you want to get medieval about it.1969 March 24, New York Magazine, page 58. From the entry medieval
• Brute spread his hands helplessly: “To think soch a fine woman should have soch a grateless child!”1942 March 27, Rupert Hughes, “His Fabulous Fortune”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CI, number 74, Chicago, Ill., page 35, column 8. From the entry grateless
• “Now, py chiminey, if you got to be a brute, be one with me!1924, Sidney Herschel Small, chapter 4, in Fourscore, Book 1: Westward, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 102. From the entry py chiminey
• Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry staggering bob
• The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry tattered
• A huge brute with thick lips and prognathous jaw stood at her shoulder.1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VIII, in The Land That Time Forgot. From the entry prognathous
• It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that ever scared the motor-bicycles on the Northampton Road.1915 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Boy Grows Up”, in The Research Magnificent, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry gaunt
• Indeed, the man was less brute than boor; he also spoke the truth.1900 May, E. W. Hornung, “The Jackeroo on G-Block”, in The Strand Magazine, volume 19, number 113, page 368. From the entry chiack
• The mighty god is completely ridiculed as a simple-minded brute.2020, Maria Kvilhuag, “Þórr in Hárbarðsljóð”, in The Seed of Yggdrasill, [Chilliwack, B.C.]: The Three Little Sisters, →ISBN, chapter 11…. From the entry Þórr
• Universal poets and artists are either plagiators or brutes.2014, Josette Baer, Revolution, Modus Vivendi, or Sovereignty? The Political Thought of the Slovak National Movement from 1861 to 1914…. From the entry plagiator
• “I guess I’m a brute for punishment,” he said laughing.2012 April 27, Michael Tucker and Hannah Stiff, "Gallatin Valley School Board Election," Belgrade News (Bozeman, Montana) (retrieved 2…. From the entry brute for punishment
• Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics.2009 December 21, Jonathan Glancey, “The art of industry”, in The Guardian. From the entry engender
• Or, as the atheists say: 'It's just there, a given, brute fact.' Well, is that what we are saying?2002, Denys Turner, Faith Seeking, London: SCM Press, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry madeness
• Brute lay in the boy's lap, a sleeping watchpuppy.1999, Pamela Kaye Tracy, It Only Takes a Spark, Heartsong Presents, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry watchpuppy
• The brute had made a loop of itself round the Dawn Treader and was beginning to draw the loop tight.1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 8, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998. From the entry matchwood
• Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.1944, Emily Carr, “Dew and Alarm Clocks”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry clinker
• A brute for punishment, a beauty for looks!1938, Fargo Commercial Trucks vintage advertisement (image at Pinterest), retrieved 02 Mar 2018. From the entry brute for punishment
• The balking brute may throw a parade into confusion or cause the most exasperating delay in loading a train.1904 January, “Breaking Horses”, in Saddlery and Harness, volume 13, page 21. From the entry balking
• This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base.2013, Robert E. Butts, Historical Pragmatics: Philosophical Essays. From the entry factness
• However, the fixed keypad lock can be easily unlocked by brute force attacks and the pattern lock is vulnerable to smudge attacks.2013, “Information Security”, in Q. Ashton Acton, editor, Issues in Information Science—Information Technology, Systems, and Security…. From the entry smudge attack
• Waterman had hidden his beloved Maiden Cordelia in the 50-foot octagonal tower there to keep her from falling into the hands of Vacavillian brutes.2013 July 5, Tony Wade, “Back in the Day: The medieval history of Fairfield, California”, in Daily Republic, archived from the original on…. From the entry Vacavillian
• Also you mean to say congrat-arroooshuns for solving lots of tricky cases all at wunce by trying hard, plus normal wolfly sense and brute instinct.2001, Ian Whybrow, Tony Ross, Little Wolf, Forest Detective. From the entry wolfly

Meaning of brute

1. adjective Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
2. adjective Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
3. adjective Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.

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How do you use brute in a sentence?

Brute is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “I got the door open through brute force.”

What is a short sentence with brute?

“a brute beast”

What does brute mean?

Brute means without reason or intelligence (of animals).