How to Use barbaric in a Sentence

barbaric

adjective

• Barbaric tribes invaded the area.
• The treatment of the prisoners was positively barbaric.
• They considered the custom barbaric.
• His table manners are barbaric.
• Of course, for Hunter, that barbaric yawp came with a heavy cost.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 15 May 2018
• In fact, now as in the past some of the most modern movements are among the most barbaric.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2017
• And the stillness of the air in my living room is just barbaric.
  — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
• At the start of the barbaric 71-70 sequence, the Clippers went to one of their pet actions.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• The rules: Rules in this barbaric sport vary by country.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
• To do so, the white South omitted the most barbaric aspects of slavery and Jim Crow.
  — Benjamin Nugent, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• The bar begins to fall back to his chest, and the spotter grabs it just as Vea lets out a final barbaric yawp.
  — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• And Montezuma, the emperor of the Aztecs, is seen through this same lens—a barbaric yet weak ruler who bowed at the feet of the Spaniards.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2024
• The book reads like a version of Whitman’s barbaric yawp.
  — Marisha Pessl, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• On the one hand, the King College crew is crude, barbaric, small-minded and clannish.
  — Chris Vognar, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• What that cop did to Floyd, pressing a knee on his neck for over nine minutes, was barbaric.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• The show does not close its eyes to just how criminal and barbaric Germany’s wars were.
  — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 19 June 2019
• The protest would be against the extremes of the almost barbaric activity of the humans.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
• As a young woman, Terrell was a leader in the fight against the barbaric practice of lynching.
  — CBS News, 6 June 2024
• Now is the perfect time to end the barbaric practice of forcing peaceful people not to work.
  — Tj Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• A jar of fuzzy vintage 2012 olives for barbaric guests who don’t drink martinis with a twist.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 17 Jan. 2017
• And now, the Trump hat is sometimes a dog whistle of barbaric white supremacy, and that is a massive problem.
  — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 16 Feb. 2018
• And the fact that Andrea's being forced to suffer as a consequence of it is barbaric.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2022
• The bill ends the barbaric practice of juvenile shackling in court.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Many were pleased by the idea that the U.S. was finally putting an end to Russia’s barbaric support for Assad.
  — Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 26 Sep. 2017
• Ukraine has also been the site of barbaric attacks against civilians.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Critics have called the buoy system barbaric and inhumane and linked it to the drowning deaths of two migrants last week.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Why do their barbaric brands of violence appeal to young people around the globe?
  — Stephen D. Reicher, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2016
• War spares no one, and Ukraine is resisting barbaric force.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the past, people thought the ritual was barbaric and brutal, Watira said.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
• As the show progresses, the games grow more barbaric as the adulation for the savage host drives increasing fury.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024