Example Sentences
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After Anthony’s dog savaged another man’s hog—hogs being precious in New Netherland—the couple was banished in 1639 to Long Island, where the two started a new life on land the Dutch wished to colonize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
England were savaged back home following the defeat on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
Critics savaged McCartney for including Linda in Wings, a choice that was made, we learn, while they were lying in bed one night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
She said owners of dogs like the one that savaged her arm should be banned from buying further animals.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
When they was gathered by him, he pointed to each Organ of the savaged Fish & he told them of its Use, & he demonstrated which were not from Fish, but Sheep.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
