Example sentences for: savagery

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

  • Another al-Hayat article said that American "shamelessness is set to make a major comeback" in the region, as, since Kosovo, there is "no prospect of persuading the policymakers in Washington that they are not always right--just as it was impossible to persuade Saddam that he did not win the 1991 Gulf War, or Milosevic that it was his savagery which led to the latest bombing campaign and provided NATO with moral cover for its first dirty war.

  • The Tarzan mythos, then, depends on a balance of tensions--between Tarzan the Ape-Man and Lord Greystoke, between England and Africa, between civilization and savagery.

  • The British retaliated with equal savagery against the mutineers and against civilians in the country through which the relief columns passed.

  • Here's the liberal common sense: "[I]n other news, cops are being accused of savagery, priests of impropriety, and thousands of children are failing in the New York City schools.

  • Burroughs' genius can be seen in the way that he redeemed the imagery of savagery for his Anglo-Saxon ape-man.


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