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How to use brunt in a sentence

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I think the Yoopers in Upper Michigan would bear the brunt of a Canadian invasion.
She had bore the brunt of his wild moods, when he had become violent and uncontrollable.
The film skilfully keeps the leads straight, relying on support to bear the brunt of the comedy.
The motives are multifaceted, the responses ambiguous and everyone bears the brunt of their misdeeds, as well as their best intentions.
The other two studies focus on the bondsmen who bore the brunt of the lowcountry's economic growth.
Women bore the brunt of the militia's extremist ideologies, executed for anything deemed un-Islamic.
The girls are portrayed as slow-witted and clueless, with Kendra bearing the brunt of most of the jokes.
We have made the point several times that the people bearing the brunt of crime live mostly in socio-economically depressed areas.
Steven took the brunt of the attack which left him unconscious and needing hospital treatment.
Rural women bear the brunt of the problems caused by environmental degradation.
The bottom line is the common risk factors really are carrying the brunt of the burden.
Many of those trapped and injured were in the front first-class carriage, which took the brunt of the impact.
Meanwhile it is the bewildered and shocked members who have borne the brunt of the uncertainty.
The front left-hand side of the bus bore the brunt of the impact and its passenger door was destroyed.
As a result, the families are broken up and children bear the brunt of the developments that follow.
The target is probably where you're choosing to focus their effect, absorbing the brunt of the tangle.
As was expected it is the small and medium businesses in which have been forced to face the brunt of the Act.
Pakistan was then, as today, a frontline state and bore the brunt of the economic and social impact of the conflict.
The van bore the brunt of the impact and skidded over forty yards into a stone wall following the collision.
There were one or two difficulties on the tiny stage, of which opening band Fever Dog bore the brunt.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Why should Heathcote escape the jeers of mockers, while he had to bear the brunt of them?
Keep your men well in hand, for we may have to bear the brunt of the King's dragoons.
The girl has taken the brunt of business while we played and she has only the reward of a salary.
In this war, as in most others, it is the infantryman who stands the brunt of the fighting.
In fine, our fathers bore the brunt of more raging and pitiless elements than we.
The Connecticut settlers, assisted by a celebrated Indian chief named Uncas, bore the brunt of this war, with but little aid from Massachusetts.
Hiram intended to accompany the officer as a spectator, but he felt no very strong desire to bear the brunt of the battle.
Whatever might be its effect, however, she must stand the brunt of it again that very day.
My wife had borne the brunt of all, and I had grudged her a few tears!
Texas is bearing the brunt of the mosquito-borne illness and is home to nearly half of 2012 cases as of mid-August.
As more economies are looked for the people who should be disciplined stay there and soft targets are there to take the brunt.
Lebanon maintained their viselike grip on proceedings following the breakthrough, with the brunt of their attacks emanating from Maatouk's side.
All at once I saw that I myself must bear the brunt of this scandal.
On this army, it was expected, the brunt of the drive would fall.
From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt.
This had received the brunt of our fire and seemed to be entirely unmanned, as not a moving figure was visible upon her decks.
It is literalism, however, which bears the brunt of his attack.
The brunt of their ire is being wholesomely directed at the fundamentalist Jamt-e-Islami and its student wing, the Islami Chhatra Shibir.
Your feet bear the brunt of your weight, and they are susceptible to everything from calluses to athlete's foot, so why don't you pamper them every once in a while?
It is the very last thing I would stand the brunt of just now.
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