How to Use ugliness in a Sentence

ugliness

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  • There is ugliness and abuse in these scenes aboard the dark ship.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2024
  • But the ugliness of the world shows itself on this night.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The lonely nights, the sneaking, the glow of the fridge, the raw ugliness and the pure exhaustion.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • With the news, there’s just so much ugliness thrown in your face.
    — Steve Morse, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • And in regards to one big piece of that ugliness, the end is very much in sight.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • This is a film of chaos and conflicts, ugliness and joy.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Then, of course, came the ugliness of the 2016 offseason with Dwyane Wade.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 June 2021
  • Both teams weeded out most of the ugliness to start the second half.
    — USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The ugliness of the rhetoric surrounding her is a black mark on the country.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Voters here will welcome the end of the ugliness in eight days.
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The tools have been used for ugliness more than they’ve been used for beauty.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The ugliness started on the first play of the game, as Carr was picked off on a deep ball that didn’t have quite enough zip on it.
    — Max Meyer, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • There is a great ugliness on the land and also a great beauty.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • Fame brings out a lot of ugliness in people around you.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Nov. 2021
  • But beyond the ugliness of the ideas, the frequency of them is a problem.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Baldy seemed all the more indomitable and gorgeous in the presence of man’s squat and belchy ugliness.
    — New York Times, 17 July 2019
  • The ugliness of our prejudices and stereotypes adds to the painful news that floods out of Ukraine minute by minute.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • After the ugliness of the past day-and-a-half--Obama wears turban!
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Trading four of the better players on a team that’s on a 73-win pace can lead to a lot of ugliness.
    — Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Yet beneath the ugliness of that, the novel makes some hard to ignore points.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Dills’s concession didn’t touch on any of the ugliness of the campaign.
    — Anna Staver, Cincinnati.com, 21 May 2020
  • There’s beauty in the struggle and ugliness in the success.
    — Jeffrey Bernstein, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
  • The row with Bellinger only heightened the game's ugliness.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • And don’t species like starlings buoy us with their resilience in the face of the sometimes absurd ugliness of a city?
    — Julia M. Zichello, Scientific American, 3 May 2021
  • The thing is, all of this — the whataboutism, the ugliness, the purity tests — have worked for Republicans.
    — Peter St. Onge - Associate Editor, Observer Editorial Board, charlotteobserver, 2 May 2018
  • The ugliness of the virus was compounded by the painful fact that Treibitz was dying alone.
    — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2020
  • And the ugliness of Francie’s home life, which ends in tragedy, is only lightly sketched in.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • There is a scene of torch-bearing neo-Nazis on the march that echoes the ugliness of 2017's Unite the Right rally at Charlottesville.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2019
  • This Sunday night’s episode, the seventh of the farewell season’s 10, returned Melanie to the silo, where Milius did his best to keep her in the dark about the ugliness that transpired in her absence.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Bitter and endless fights over Louie have dragged the long-running series into new depths of ugliness, leaving its future uncertain.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024

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