savagery

Example Sentences

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Few if any of even Kim Jong-un’s looniest tirades match these posts for their wild-eyed savagery.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

As Simon Elliott describes in his biography “The African Emperor,” Severus was a mercurial and contradictory character, capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity, and always blessed with a sense of the theatrical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

His shrieking reactions to his wife’s savagery throw into relief his good nature and her perversity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

"We're not going to allow this kind of savagery to destroy our society anymore," Trump said at a memorandum-signing in the Oval Office.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

Running with an unusual gait in which one foreleg jabbed out as he swung it forward, Hard Tack channeled savagery into velocity, whipping top horses in stakes races—the highest level of racing—and breaking speed records.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand