How to Use barbaric in a Sentence

barbaric

adjective
  • Barbaric tribes invaded the area.
  • The treatment of the prisoners was positively barbaric.
  • They considered the custom barbaric.
  • His table manners are barbaric.
  • Colum has this great line about barbaric tools.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, for Hunter, that barbaric yawp came with a heavy cost.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 15 May 2018
  • And the stillness of the air in my living room is just barbaric.
    — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, now as in the past some of the most modern movements are among the most barbaric.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Time is long overdue for these barbaric trapping methods to be banned.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
  • The blurring of lines around belief seems to surface our barbaric gears.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
  • What that cop did to Floyd, pressing a knee on his neck for over nine minutes, was barbaric.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
  • These brave people have been risking their lives daily to protest this barbaric regime for more than two weeks now.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Ukraine has also been the site of barbaric attacks against civilians.
    — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • But killing so many of them as a means of population control is barbaric.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2025
  • What kind of barbaric regime puts a school for little girls in a compound that used to be military?
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Why do their barbaric brands of violence appeal to young people around the globe?
    — Stephen D. Reicher, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2016
  • The show does not close its eyes to just how criminal and barbaric Germany’s wars were.
    — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 19 June 2019
  • Is there any knowing what would have happened, had these crimes not been captured in all their barbaric glory?
    — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Also there’s something a little fun and barbaric about dealing with a pit.
    — Maggie Lange, Bon Appétit, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In Straight, the punitive approach to shaping teens was writ large and barbaric.
    — Cyndy Etler, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2025
  • An attacker who bites a victim is more likely to be seen as vicious and barbaric.
    — al, 8 Mar. 2022
  • An attacker who bites a victim is more likely to be seen as vicious and barbaric.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The bar begins to fall back to his chest, and the spotter grabs it just as Vea lets out a final barbaric yawp.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Now is the perfect time to end the barbaric practice of forcing peaceful people not to work.
    — Tj Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The bill ends the barbaric practice of juvenile shackling in court.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • But their culture is rotten to the core, valuing barbaric violence and brute strength above all else.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • On the one hand, the King College crew is crude, barbaric, small-minded and clannish.
    — Chris Vognar, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Critics have called the buoy system barbaric and inhumane and linked it to the drowning deaths of two migrants last week.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And the fact that Andrea's being forced to suffer as a consequence of it is barbaric.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The protest would be against the extremes of the almost barbaric activity of the humans.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023

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