Example sentences for: barbarous

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

  • The end was hastened by a man who made other Muslim invaders seem like pussy cats: the Mongol Timur the Lame, the “barbarous and bloody Tamburlaine,” later written about by Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

  • The Frenchmen applied the term to the Iroquois inhabitants of that region on account of the Indians' barbarous appearance and rough-cut hair.

  • It was because the charismatic in music is genuinely awe-inspiring, and to watch the violist trek across Schnittke's barbarous Russian landscape was like watching humanity and inhumanity in ferocious battle, waging every grand and noble struggle that we associate with the 19 th -century violin concertos, except without any of the reassuring triumphalism that, among 19 th -century composers, was indistinguishable from a finale.

  • Online reactionary giving is as convenient as today, as barbarous as the Spanish Inquisition--like Torquemada on some kind of laser sled.

  • "The Laogai Archipelago" describes China's massive, awful penal system, which imprisons between 6 million and 8 million people and favors such barbarous practices as slave labor, torture, and organ-harvesting from executed convicts.


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