Example sentences for: barbarous

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

  • While Jack Kemp, Steve Forbes, and Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley are best known for their promotion of supply-side economics, they are equally dedicated to the belief that the key to prosperity is a return to the gold standard, which John Maynard Keynes pronounced a "barbarous relic" more than 60 years ago.

  • "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.

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

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

  • Its position as an important trading post kept it apart from the more barbarous behavior in other areas.


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