How to Use savage in a Sentence

savage

1 of 3 adjective

• The coast was lashed by savage storms.
• He was the victim of a savage attack.
• He wrote savage satires about people he didn't like.
• The last part of the class gets even more savage, silly, loud, and weird.
  — Aubree Nichols, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2020
• The wide shot of Chris Jericho going off the top of the cage was savage.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• This means that the gamut runs widely, from groping to the most savage rapes.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Trey Dean was more than just the most savage hit of the Crimson Tide season.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 22 Dec. 2020
• The story of that savage battle, fought in the dark at point-blank range, will be the subject of the next Portals.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
• The rest of what happened is as savage as combat gets and Bellavia put it all in this book.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 25 June 2019
• But while the audience tuned in, the critics were savage.
  — Mark Peikert, Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2022
• The tape of the Saxton fight, available on YouTube, is a frightening reminder of how savage the sport was in the day.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• What the cheerleaders do in some of these movies is downright savage.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2019
• Nothing like when your man and baby are more savage than you!
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• What if your friends don't see your sassy and savage selfie caption as cute?
  — Seventeen, 30 June 2022
• Wendy's, known for its savage clapbacks, had much to say about IHOb's big reveal.
  — Becca Smouse, azcentral, 11 June 2018
• And that involved a savage murder, the murder of Karen Ermert.
  — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2020
• Teigen is a pro at throwing all kinds of shade at her singer husband, from innocent to the most savage.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 17 July 2018
• The makeup store clerk played by Kiara Pichardo might be the most savage character on this whole show.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 July 2021
• This scenic park laps at the base of the Superstition Mountains, a sudden and savage wall of dark stone that rises from the desert floor.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2021
• And then there was Megan Thee Stallion, who lit up an unnamed nemesis with a savage new diss track.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• At its heart is a savage question: When drought is coming for everyone, who owns the flood?
  — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
• To anyone who knows her well, Petsch is much more likely to flash a bright, toothy grin than sling Cheryl-style, savage AF one-liners.
  — Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 3 Oct. 2019
• The stock market rose during the briefing after a savage drop Monday.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2020
• In fact, the roots of mercy killing in modern times are lodged in the unsavory and downright savage practices of the last century.
  — Grazie Pozo Christie, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• But the digital natives were savage elsewhere on Twitter, while others tried to bridge the gap.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• Sport and Sport Plus deliver shifts with savage speed and a satisfying bump of torque.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2020
• The great fear in 1997 was that this savage new virus would reassort once more, and gain the superpower of easy human-to-human spread.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• While all of Ari's other exes got their own page in her Burn Book, which was filled with cute pics and savage comments, Mac's page was missing.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 3 Dec. 2018
• When the road—or more likely track—opens up, the car’s acceleration is utterly savage.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
• Say there is a particularly savage form of chicken flu that can unlock a human cell but is not passed easily among people—the kind of virus that struck Hong Kong, for instance.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022

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savage

2 of 3 noun

• What kind of savage could have committed such a terrible crime?
• Bowers was caught in a savage blizzard and lost contact with the rest of the team.
  — Ethan Kuperberg, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2022
• Megan Thee Stallion is a savage and has the degree to prove it.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
• For fans of of smart thrillers with a savage streak, this Nordic tale looks to be right up your dark alley.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• On savage lundy trail heading back to Hites cove trail.
  — CBS News, 18 Feb. 2022
• Maraniss, however, shatters the myth of the child-like savage.
  — Louis Moore, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• Some savage puns about O.J. Simpson here, who was her dad's client (and also hosted the show in the '70s).
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• Some of the best sketches, whether silly or savage, have a tinge of horror.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• Artistic truth, in her books, is always a savage thing.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• But when the song came on, the savage beast turned into a (expletive) kitten.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2021
• Lillard was savage after George’s 3-point attempt from the corner hit the side of the backboard against the Nuggets in the fourth quarter.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2020
• And that involved a savage murder, the murder of Karen Ermert.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2020
• It’s not their future health at risk in a game of savage violence.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Oct. 2022
• Suzuki passed a chair to Jon Moxley and challenged him to a duel like a savage.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
• Two ex-convicts are tried for the savage killing of a farm family in 1959 Kansas.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• This gave an American Negro for the first time a sense of himself beyond the savage or a clown.
  — Brandon Tensley and Leah Asmelash, CNN, 8 July 2020
• Nighttime noises, tame or savage, will jolt many of us awake.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• In many women are oppressed, fight back is savage ways.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Oct. 2022
• Still, Edgar-Jones is quick to rebut any notion that Kya is a savage creature.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 May 2022
• The bombing of a maternity ward in the city became a global symbol of the savage war.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• Was this another Roman hyperbole meant to paint the Britons in a savage light, or is there some truth to it?
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
• In 1905, a savage Russian pogrom took hundreds of Jewish lives.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• So instead of vast deficits, the states will have to make savage cuts to public services in the midst of a recession and pandemic.
  — The Economist, 18 June 2020
• Of the 11 field goals Walker made in his first three games back, none resonated more than his savage slam over Melli.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2021
• Instead, it's designed to take savage terrain in stride.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2021
• The savage assault seemed eerily similar to the Slaten case.
  — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2022
• But the Fremen, per Herbert, were more than just noble-savage stereotypes.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
• Drew also put his savage moves to good use during shooting.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
• The savage wars that had rocked the former Yugoslavia seemed to be largely avoided, and 15 new sovereign states took their place on the maps and in the United Nations.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2022
• Stroma portrays him with a confusing mix of naïve innocence and savage brutality, equal parts hilarious, sad, horrifying, and adorable all at the same time.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022

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savage

3 of 3 verb

• A hurricane savaged the city.
• He looked like he'd been savaged by a wild animal.
• The newspapers savaged his reputation.
• And DiZoglio was savaged in the gossipy halls of the State House.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• This is not the first time that Trump has savaged Sessions publicly.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 30 May 2018
• Mueller is being daily savaged in the right wing press.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Oct. 2017
• Now, hours before the bill was set to go to the floor, Donald Trump was savaging it before the entire world.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 11 Jan. 2018
• But the broader picture is that, day in and day out, Trump is bringing up and savaging Crooked Hillary again and again.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Nov. 2017
• And if that means savaging the psyches of thousands of children, so be it.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018
• The girl, who was savaged in the attacks, had enormous eyes, a quiet smile and one name: Asifa.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• On a summer day in a park in Brooklyn, the sun savaged a swarm of actors in sturdy wool coats and pert hats.
  — Alexis Soloski, idahostatesman, 7 Jan. 2018
• The midi was an old style and shouldn’t have been earth shattering, but the show was savaged by critics.
  — Marlen Komar, Vox, 27 June 2019
• When Pons and Fleischmann published a paper at last, their work was savaged as a sham.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
• Though the film plays at both the Sundance and Toronto film festivals, the movie is savaged by many critics.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• So, why, given all of the downsides, did Trump spend his morning savaging Corker?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
• The two men have sparred, but not savaged each other, in previous debates.
  — Glenn Thrush, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2020
• There is no need to savage the opposing view on Facebook.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• Savaged replaced a struggling Osweiler as the starter two weeks ago.
  — Jimmy Durkin, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2017
• Rory’s mouth was shiny with grease and Eustace had his face down almost on the plate, the pair savaging at their food with the shameless avidity of children.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• That woman whose cows have been savaged by a lion has taken to keeping her last cow inside.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 1 Sep. 2017
• Plenty of now-classic films bombed at the box office and/or were critically savaged at the time of their release.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2018
• That did not keep Nunes from going on television to savage those very decisions.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
• That changed last year when a mountain lion started coming around at night, savaging her alpacas.
  — sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
• Critics savaged Sean Dolan, who started it all, filed a complaint with the university.
  — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2020
• He’d been publicly savaged for days for not closing the city’s school system, and even his own Health Department was in revolt at his inaction.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 16 May 2020
• But both also got weighed down by their stars, pulling in so-so receptions from audiences (and getting savaged by critics).
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 2 June 2017
• This same ecosystem treats any and all mainstream coverage of Democrats that doesn't savage them as infected by hypocrisy and double standards.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 8 Dec. 2021
• The front-runners savaged one another, clearing the way for Davis to surge in the last weeks of the campaign, win the nomination and, ultimately, the governor's office.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Democrats would savage Republicans for their failure and balance would be restored.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2023
• In the weeks leading up to his aborted march on Moscow, Prigozhin savaged the men for failures in military leadership in Ukraine, recording a series of graphic, obscenity-laden tirades from the front lines.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024