How to Use savagery in a Sentence

savagery

noun

• The savagery of the attack was horrifying.
• Part of it was the savagery of the attack at Torrey Pines State Beach.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• Cart driver became the hero and just drove away with Bride to stop the savagery.
  — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 14 May 2018
• The end of the savagery did little to answer the burning question: What was the beast?
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
• The end of the savagery did little to answer the burning question: What was the beast?
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
• Beneath the volatile skin of the street, new savagery can be felt, like a contagion along the nerves.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• The irony is, the game’s savagery has ebbed over the last few generations.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• The helplessness of the young victims and the savagery of the attack sickened France.
  — John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• Along the way, Mr. Assad has shown there are no limits to regime savagery.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2021
• That is, other than the major savagery that is Sel's song about Justin.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 23 Oct. 2019
• The whole range of human savagery was unleashed on the Rohingyas.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• There’s an edge of savagery in the illustrations that evokes the redness of tooth and claw.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• When Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the scale and savagery shocked the world.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Part of their persistence was due to the savagery of the attack at Torrey Pines State Beach.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• Among the many pleasures of Klara and the Sun is the savagery of its satire of the modern meritocracy.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
• There is a pattern: the savagery of Hamas; the response of Israel; the backers on either side.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 May 2024
• But an uptick in savagery was not by itself responsible for the changes of the last decade.
  — Graeme Wood, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
• If the face is the mirror of the mind, as Saint Jerome observed, then what happens when the face is disfigured by the savagery of war?
  — Sharrona Pearl, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• Oradour-Sur-Glane, with the savagery of a massacre, is a macabre, black-and-white showcase of the Nazi occupation of France.
  — Elaine Ganley, Jewish Journal, 1 May 2017
• The savagery of Jamal’s killing pained anyone with a conscience.
  — Hatice Cengiz, Time, 2 Oct. 2019
• The latter were servile and parasitic, dim-witted and lazy, the children of African savagery.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• What is motherhood but a string of abuse, ingratitude and terror for what the savagery of the world will do to a child?
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
• The hatred that savagery feels for anything high, decent, or good.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021
• Hardly a day went by without someone telling me a new story about the Shah’s savagery.
  — Greg Dobbs, The Denver Post, 14 May 2017
• The rumors of inmate savagery, like all rumors, had a knack for sticking around.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• The savagery of the killings immediately struck a raw and angry nerve.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2020
• That means Bibi’s onslaught has failed to cripple Hamas, as many have warned throughout this savagery.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
• To that end, please enjoy Jujubee’s read of Tyra’s lack of dental work in season two, which belongs in the savagery hall of fame.
  — Caroline Framke, Vox, 22 Mar. 2018
• Laws can codify and reinforce these norms, but the norms are what keep us from savagery.
  — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2017
• His sculpture charts a soldier's wartime journey, from his ambivalent departure, to his wordless homecoming, to the animal savagery of combat in-between.
  — Faith Salie, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024