Example sentences for: barbarian

How can you use “barbarian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Don Quixote is listed in the Appendix, but I could not find him in the dictionary, nor could I find quixotic, Queen of Sheba, Jeeves, Venus, Einstein (for `genius'), Hitler (for `demagogue, tryant'), Attila the Hun (for `barbarian'), Robinson Crusoe (for `castaway; lonely person')—but man Friday is in— Horatio Alger, Narcissus , etc.

  • Because sports are an outlet for our primitive barbarian hostilities?

  • This left the country to be overrun by various barbarian tribes, especially the Vandals.

  • The whole area was razed during Barbarian attacks in the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire and was covered with new buildings during Byzantine times, all of which had to be cleared when excavations began.

  • The New York Times asked screenwriter John Milius for his opinion, and the Conan the Barbarian scribe said it sounded just fine to him.


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