How to Use savagery in a Sentence

savagery

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  • 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
  • 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
  • The long fight for Bakhmut has been block-by-block, house-by-house savagery grinding up men, materiel and masonry.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In fact, the savagery of the Soviet occupiers matched, and sometimes even exceeded, that of the Nazis.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Extremist Islamism became Russia’s curse after the savagery of its two wars in Chechnya.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 24 June 2024

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