How to Use savagery in a Sentence

savagery

noun
  • The savagery of the attack was horrifying.
  • The savagery is a feature, not a bug.
    — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • And then the chaos and savagery begins.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This savagery can last up to a week before the mature larvae fall to the ground.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • Cart driver became the hero and just drove away with Bride to stop the savagery.
    — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 14 May 2018
  • That savagery left its mark in him, eroding his faith in poetry and speech writ large.
    — Huda Fakhreddine august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The irony is, the game’s savagery has ebbed over the last few generations.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Cash hasn’t so much tamed the savagery of the internet as turned on parental controls.
    — Gideon Leek, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The hatred that savagery feels for anything high, decent, or good.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Beneath the volatile skin of the street, new savagery can be felt, like a contagion along the nerves.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • But an uptick in savagery was not by itself responsible for the changes of the last decade.
    — Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Laws can codify and reinforce these norms, but the norms are what keep us from savagery.
    — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2017
  • There’s an edge of savagery in the illustrations that evokes the redness of tooth and claw.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The rumors of inmate savagery, like all rumors, had a knack for sticking around.
    — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • That is, other than the major savagery that is Sel's song about Justin.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The whole range of human savagery was unleashed on the Rohingyas.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • All of these men share a thread of violence, savagery, and destruction.
    — Bethany Jones, Marie Claire, 28 June 2017
  • The savagery of Jamal’s killing pained anyone with a conscience.
    — Hatice Cengiz, Time, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Hardly a day went by without someone telling me a new story about the Shah’s savagery.
    — Greg Dobbs, The Denver Post, 14 May 2017
  • And yet, the odd sense of self-savagery is sometimes there in her frustration with opponents.
    — Michelle Dean, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Cusack’s photos captured the girl and her sport in all its savagery and tenderness.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • This, too, is where savagery lurks—in tedious, monotonous tasks.
    — Seema Jilani august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Others were swept up in the moment’s savagery, led astray by stronger wills with dangerous motives.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The savagery of the killings immediately struck a raw and angry nerve.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The genocide was a spasm of barely imaginable butchery and savagery.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 July 2024
  • That means Bibi’s onslaught has failed to cripple Hamas, as many have warned throughout this savagery.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Known for its savagery and the popularity level of both fighters at the time.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • What is motherhood but a string of abuse, ingratitude and terror for what the savagery of the world will do to a child?
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
  • Part of it was the savagery of the attack at Torrey Pines State Beach.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022

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