Example sentences for: barbarians

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

  • Their few weeks here in the winter of 1838–1839 seem to have been fairly miserable: Chopin was unwell, the weather was wet and cold and bad for his chest, and George Sand disparaged the villagers in her book A Winter in Majorca, calling them “barbarians and thieves. ”

  • You might think that by now every Frenchman understands that foreigners pee when they need to and will not think them barbarians for doing so.

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

  • Barbarians and museum curators have removed most of the villa’s treasures, but a stroll through the remaining pillars, arches, and mosaic fragments in gardens running wild among the olive trees, cypresses, and pines can be marvelously evocative of a lost world.

  • His own answer, maddeningly brief, invokes Archimedes' garden in Syracuse, where the philosopher worked defiantly on his theorem even as barbarians clamored at the gates.


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