Example sentences for: barbarians

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

  • Earthquake, fire, flood, and the plunder of barbarians and Renaissance architects reduced the area to a muddy cow pasture until the excavations of the 19th century.

  • The invading “barbarians,” the Manchu, adopted all the refinements of Chinese civilization, installing a regime so conservative that it began to hold back progress.

  • Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians " (Patrick McGrath, New York Times Book Review ). High praise also for Kadare, a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize.

  • Six elegant columns support a pediment with decorative friezes depicting the gods on Mount Olympus and heroic battle scenes of Greek warriors fighting barbarians.

  • (“Honor the emperor, expel the barbarians! ”


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