Example sentences for: savagery

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

  • 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.

  • Confidence in the innate superiority of the Caucasian race--and, within that race, of its Anglo-Saxon variant--coexisted with paranoia about the yellow peril and black "savagery."

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

  • 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.

  • 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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