BARBARIC in a Sentence

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56 example sentences for BARBARIC, such as:

1. It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
2. Their barbarous treatment of prisoners aroused great rage.
3. She found the idea of killing animals for pleasure barbaric.
4. He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.
5. The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.

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 Meanings and Examples of BARBARIC
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barbaric
 a.  resembling uncivilized persons, lacking refinement
 a.  savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  If they could have continued this normal barbaric life Carol would have been the most enthusiastic citizen of Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
3  Their tawny features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
4  The men, pitching forward insanely, had burst into cheerings, moblike and barbaric, but tuned in strange keys that can arouse the dullard and the stoic.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  When assaulted again by bullets, the men burst out in a barbaric cry of rage and pain.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
6  A barbaric stone; a pre-historic.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
7  Boots which extended halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence which was suggested by his whole appearance.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
8  The harsh intervals and shrill discords of barbaric music stirred him at times when Schubert's grace, and Chopin's beautiful sorrows, and the mighty harmonies of Beethoven himself, fell unheeded on his ear.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
9  Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
10  The barbarity of that willingness to sacrifice other children so that one child might have too much was impossible to her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  His savage barbarity was equalled only by the consummate coolness with which he committed the grossest and most savage deeds upon the slaves under his charge.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
2  She found the idea of killing animals for pleasure barbaric.
3  I think any sport involving animals where the animals do not have a choice is barbaric and uncivilized.
4  It's bleak, barbaric and brutally unsparing about the part played by almost every white person in perpetuating injustice in 1840s America.
5  It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
6  He saw it now as his mission to establish similar normality in a barbarous land.
7  Their barbarous treatment of prisoners aroused great rage.
8  The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.