How to Use barbarity in a Sentence

barbarity

noun

• The photos vividly capture the war's barbarity.
• The barbarity of the attack was horrifying.
• He is accused of inflicting unimaginable barbarities on his own people.
• The barbarity brought to light in recent days could be just the start.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• A little force and barbarity, ruthlessness even, are welcome there — on the floor, not in the stands.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• This, obviously, is Loznitsa’s point: The rhetoric of war, much like its barbarity, is the same on all sides.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 June 2022
• This represents all the barbarity of the Hamas attack, which must be punished.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
• But the barbarity was too blatant, and witnessed by too many people.
  — Time, 14 Apr. 2022
• For five years, Roth — an avid shark lover — worked on the film, traveling the world to expose the barbarity undergirding the market.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• This shows the full barbarity behind the Hamas attack – who must be held accountable.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
• But growing up in a country cracked with bloodletting and barbarity wasn’t the only agony Deng was made to endure as a small girl.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2020
• Many say they were galvanized by the barbarity of Hamas’s attack.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• In the 74 years since the D-Day landings, the barbarity of the épuration sauvage — its violence against women — has often been overlooked.
  — Ann Mah, Time, 6 June 2018
• What barbarity, indeed, that such a mind should ever cease.
  — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 15 July 2021
• The Transnistria War, after all, ended in July 1992, while the barbarity of the Ukraine conflict continues to play out in real time.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Our desire to keep trading with China obliges the president of the United States to remain silent about this barbarity.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Nov. 2019
• Military prosecutors laid out a vivid portrait not just of this act of barbarity, but of the modus operandi of the SS, the most savage of Hitler’s war-makers.
  — Larry Tye, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2020
• The barbarity of the scene is reflected throughout the movie, in which almost everyone becomes a villain at some point.
  — Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
• The barbarity of the death penalty was supposed to have been extinguished nearly a half-century ago.
  — Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
• Five of the people killed in the attacks were in the western Lviv region bordering Poland, a region far from the front lines that has been spared the worst of the war’s barbarity but is well within reach of Russian missiles.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Such barbarity has forcibly displaced more than half the country’s population of 21 million, and half of those displaced have fled the country as refugees.
  — Samuel Moyn, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2021
• The two cases of mass killings of civilians at remote ranches 90 minutes south of Texas marked a new level of barbarity in Mexico’s drug war.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• In covering the story of Ulrich Klopfer, media resort to euphemisms that betray the barbarity of an act sanctioned by half of the country.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
• However, Gates uses this moment not only to expose the barbarity of racial terrorism but to focus on the Black Church as the leading force in confronting it.
  — Erica Armstrong Dunbar, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• Critics accused them of beautifying blood and barbed wire and barbarity, despite the blessing of the Royal British Legion.
  — Matthew Sweet, The Economist, 4 Dec. 2020
• But the barbarity of Russia’s concentrated artillery fire has made the second stage far more challenging for many Ukrainians in the trenches.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
• Americans see images of daylight shootouts in public squares or quinceañeras – the kind of barbarity that can seem like a Hollywood production.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2022
• To stop these acts of barbarity and brutality that have shocked and continue to shock our collective conscience.
  — Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
• Picasso’s Guernica became a symbol against the barbarity and terror of war following the German bombing of the Basque town in 1937.
  — Annika Erikson, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2021
• Not even six full months have passed since the October 7 massacre, and already that act of unspeakable barbarity has been reduced to a passing aside in Democratic rhetorical assaults on Israeli perfidy -- that is, when it is mentioned at all.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024