How to Use barbarity in a Sentence

barbarity

noun
  • The photos vividly capture the war's barbarity.
  • The barbarity of the attack was horrifying.
  • He is accused of inflicting unimaginable barbarities on his own people.
  • The barbarity brought to light in recent days could be just the start.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But the barbarity was too blatant, and witnessed by too many people.
    — Time, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In the face of tragedy and crisis and inequality and barbarity, artists make work.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • A little force and barbarity, ruthlessness even, are welcome there — on the floor, not in the stands.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Many say they were galvanized by the barbarity of Hamas’s attack.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • This shows the full barbarity behind the Hamas attack – who must be held accountable.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • This represents all the barbarity of the Hamas attack, which must be punished.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The barbarity of the death penalty was supposed to have been extinguished nearly a half-century ago.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
  • But growing up in a country cracked with bloodletting and barbarity wasn’t the only agony Deng was made to endure as a small girl.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The barbarity of the scene is reflected throughout the movie, in which almost everyone becomes a villain at some point.
    — Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
  • To stop these acts of barbarity and brutality that have shocked and continue to shock our collective conscience.
    — Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But there are few other films before or since that have revealed the sheer physical barbarity and psychotropic horror of warfare.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024
  • For five years, Roth — an avid shark lover — worked on the film, traveling the world to expose the barbarity undergirding the market.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Comparing anything to the barbarity of concentration camps and gas chambers is a mistake.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • The event would be retold over the years as an archetypal narrative of male supremacy and barbarity and abject female subservience.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022
  • This is not a step toward civilization, but a step back to the barbarity of intervening in personal affairs.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2016
  • Netanyahu is the excuse for staying silent about Israeli barbarity in Palestine.
    — Uriel Kon september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The Illusion of Destiny Why is the world racked by barbarity and violence?
    — Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Such barbarity has forcibly displaced more than half the country’s population of 21 million, and half of those displaced have fled the country as refugees.
    — Samuel Moyn, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Just two weeks after the march, on September 15, white folk answered back with unimaginable barbarity.
    — Time, Time, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Americans see images of daylight shootouts in public squares or quinceañeras – the kind of barbarity that can seem like a Hollywood production.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2022
  • Amid all the barbarity for barbarity’s sake, Jonsson carries the film with a deep well of unspoken regret.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Our desire to keep trading with China obliges the president of the United States to remain silent about this barbarity.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Nov. 2019
  • As in that book, while Whitehead is frank about the barbarity his characters endure, there are few scenes of explicit violence — most of it happens offstage.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 11 July 2019
  • But many do sincerely support Vladimir Putin’s barbarity against Ukraine, and they should be judged accordingly.
    — Bonnie Morales, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • Cathy escapes, the Jimmies' numbers are diminished, and the stomach-churning barbarity finally comes to an end.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The barbarity of the institution, meanwhile, is self-evident—but rarely does an author present its abuses so powerfully and vividly.
    — The Atlantic, 14 May 2026

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