Example Sentences

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“Bobby believed we should work to ‘tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,’” Kennedy, 93, wrote.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2021

Hunger pains aside, one of Mikkelsen’s biggest takeaways from the shoot was the starkness and savageness of the landscape around him.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2019

“That’s when I felt the savageness of my own selfishness,” he said.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2018

Thou wast my captive and my child — All savageness and appetite.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz