Example sentences for: barbaric

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

  • As for just plain barbaric policies, like the one at Northridge Hospital, I see no way in which the doctors who follow them are not ultimately culpable.

  • Dramatic arrangements for doing this are famous--the head-flattening, the neck-lengthening, the tooth-filing, the lip-stretching--all the irreversible ways of completing the human body that were called "barbaric" by restless people bent on scientific understanding, political and intellectual enlightenment, or plain old empire, holy and profane.

  • Teachers kept problem children in line with corporal punishments that seem positively barbaric today: They tied children to whipping posts and beat them or branded students for their crimes--a "T" for thievery, a "B" for blasphemy.

  • She insisted on casual fakes and mixtures of vivid barbaric ornaments along with real pearls.

  • The government organ said that while the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade provoked widespread indignation, NATO leaders, instead of changing their stand, "have continued the barbaric raids on an even larger scale against Yugoslavia."


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