"cruel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

cruel adjetivo

cruel + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 113
cruel punishment • cruel treatment • cruel man • cruel joke • cruel thing • cruel world • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(1) punishment, beating
Kolokacji: 2
(2) treatment, way, manner, form
Kolokacji: 4
(5) thing, necessity, sea
Kolokacji: 3
(6) fate, blow
Kolokacji: 2
(7) smile, grin, sneer
Kolokacji: 3
(10) eye, mouth, beak, lip, talon
Kolokacji: 5
(12) irony, mockery, parody
Kolokacji: 3
(14) month, winter
Kolokacji: 2
(15) face, feature, aspect
Kolokacji: 3
(18) reality, truth, fact
Kolokacji: 3
1. cruel reality = okrutna rzeczywistość cruel reality
  • And for those soldiers whose jobs require them to leave base, there is no escape from the cruel realities of war in Iraq.
  • There's time enough for you to join the cruel realities of the world.
  • The girl was too vulnerable and had yet to be armored against the cruel reality of life.
  • Only now is he coming to grips with the cruel realities of a difficult problem.
  • "Such are the cruel realities of war," he observed reluctantly.
  • Isn't a beautiful dream better than a cruel reality?
  • Would he have to crush it someday with cruel reality?
  • The rest of the plot follows their coping with this cruel reality.
  • "The cruel reality is that we don't count for anything in this phase of world history."
  • She'd had no shelter against the cruel realities of life.
2. cruel truth = okrutna prawda cruel truth
3. cruel fact = okrutny fakt cruel fact
(19) Intention, choice
Kolokacji: 2
(20) streak, nature, indifference
Kolokacji: 3
(21) woman, mistress, sun
Kolokacji: 3
(22) God, father, stepmother
Kolokacji: 3
(23) enemy, king, foe
Kolokacji: 3
(24) method, injustice
Kolokacji: 2
(26) grip, sword
Kolokacji: 2
(27) cut, insult
Kolokacji: 2
(28) lesson, reminder, tale
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + cruel
Kolokacji: 5
sound cruel • consider cruel • look cruel • seem cruel • turn cruel
adverbio + cruel
Kolokacji: 20
most cruel • particularly cruel • especially cruel • extremely cruel • unnecessarily cruel • ...
cruel + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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