bestial

Example Sentences

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Sparkle pony or not, this year proved that even with lavish accommodations like RVs and power drops, Burning Man is a bestial experience — which is apropos considering the theme this year was “Animalia.”

From Los Angeles Times

Although he welcomed the Gladstone apology in Guyana, he said the failure to acknowledge Jamaica hinted at "an unwillingness to face up to the full brutal, bestial horror of chattel slavery" in the country.

From BBC

The bestial metaphor is a heavy-handed one, but it comes so out of left field that it hints at a feral mentality on the director’s part as well.

From Washington Post

They couldn’t see me and I couldn’t see them, but in the explosive clamor of snorting and hooves, I fancied I was caught up in some colossal bestial panic that would crush me to death.

From New York Times

To save her father, a Frenchwoman offers her life to a man under a bestial enchantment but who is noble and grows to love her.

From Los Angeles Times