Example Sentences

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“Their professional dominance came in part from their command of the intimate daily savageries of the slave trade,” Rothman writes.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2021

Far beyond Syria, as well, many millions of people bear indelible memories of the conflict’s multifarious savageries, thanks to the numbing barrage of videos that have been posted on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017

A good thing too, says Goffman, for "without such mercies, unsatisfactory persons would bleed to death from the conversational savageries performed on them."

From Time Magazine Archive

After victory we began by seeking to punish the Germans for Hitler's savageries and to help the British for having defended freedom's way for all people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Roebuck did have some sort of a conscience, distorted though it was, and the dictator of savageries Galloway would have scorned to commit.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various