BARBAROUS in a Sentence
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56 example sentences for BARBAROUS, such as:
1. It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
2. argument to show the barbarous nature of the Negro, a.
3. It was barbarous to be happy when Edmund was suffering.
4. Their barbarous treatment of prisoners aroused great rage.
5. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
2. argument to show the barbarous nature of the Negro, a.
3. It was barbarous to be happy when Edmund was suffering.
4. Their barbarous treatment of prisoners aroused great rage.
5. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Meanings and Examples of BARBAROUS
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barbarous
a. primitive in customs and culture
a. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
2 After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.
3 It seemed, for near a minute, as if the demons of hell had possessed themselves of the air about them, and were venting their savage humors in barbarous sounds.
4 The vengeance of the Hurons had now taken a new direction, and they prepared to execute it with that barbarous ingenuity with which they were familiarized by the practise of centuries.
5 He is a savage, a barbarous and ignorant savage, and knows not what he does.
6 Well did these barbarous warriors prove that they deserved those significant names which had been bestowed for deeds in former wars.
7 argument to show the barbarous nature of the Negro, a.
8 It is only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory.
9 The bravery exhibited there was almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity which began by the sacrifice of self.
10 The cardinal had little notes thrown over in which he represented to the Rochellais how unjust, selfish, and barbarous was the conduct of their leaders.
11 Stacks Gate, as seen from the highroad, was just a huge and gorgeous new hotel, the Coningsby Arms, standing red and white and gilt in barbarous isolation off the road.
12 It was barbarous to be happy when Edmund was suffering.
13 She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments.
14 Only the barbarous and superb woman did not so much as flinch, and stretched tragically her bare arms after us over the somber and glittering river.
15 Nevertheless, his barbarous cruelty and inhumanity with infinite wickedness do not permit him to be celebrated among the most excellent men.
Example Sentence:
1 It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
2 He saw it now as his mission to establish similar normality in a barbarous land.
3 Their barbarous treatment of prisoners aroused great rage.
4 The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.
5 I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
6 She found the idea of killing animals for pleasure barbaric.
7 I think any sport involving animals where the animals do not have a choice is barbaric and uncivilized.
8 It's bleak, barbaric and brutally unsparing about the part played by almost every white person in perpetuating injustice in 1840s America.