How to Use barbarity in a Sentence
barbarity
noun- The photos vividly capture the war's barbarity.
- The barbarity of the attack was horrifying.
- He is accused of inflicting unimaginable barbarities on his own people.
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The barbarity brought to light in recent days could be just the start.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
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A little force and barbarity, ruthlessness even, are welcome there — on the floor, not in the stands.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
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This, obviously, is Loznitsa’s point: The rhetoric of war, much like its barbarity, is the same on all sides.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 June 2022
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This represents all the barbarity of the Hamas attack, which must be punished.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
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But the barbarity was too blatant, and witnessed by too many people.
—Time, 14 Apr. 2022
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For five years, Roth — an avid shark lover — worked on the film, traveling the world to expose the barbarity undergirding the market.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
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This shows the full barbarity behind the Hamas attack – who must be held accountable.
—Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
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But growing up in a country cracked with bloodletting and barbarity wasn’t the only agony Deng was made to endure as a small girl.
—Hollie McKay, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2020
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Many say they were galvanized by the barbarity of Hamas’s attack.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
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In the 74 years since the D-Day landings, the barbarity of the épuration sauvage — its violence against women — has often been overlooked.
—Ann Mah, Time, 6 June 2018
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What barbarity, indeed, that such a mind should ever cease.
—Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 15 July 2021
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The Transnistria War, after all, ended in July 1992, while the barbarity of the Ukraine conflict continues to play out in real time.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 June 2023
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Our desire to keep trading with China obliges the president of the United States to remain silent about this barbarity.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Nov. 2019
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Military prosecutors laid out a vivid portrait not just of this act of barbarity, but of the modus operandi of the SS, the most savage of Hitler’s war-makers.
—Larry Tye, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2020
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The barbarity of the scene is reflected throughout the movie, in which almost everyone becomes a villain at some point.
—Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
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The barbarity of the death penalty was supposed to have been extinguished nearly a half-century ago.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
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Five of the people killed in the attacks were in the western Lviv region bordering Poland, a region far from the front lines that has been spared the worst of the war’s barbarity but is well within reach of Russian missiles.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
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Such barbarity has forcibly displaced more than half the country’s population of 21 million, and half of those displaced have fled the country as refugees.
—Samuel Moyn, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2021
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The two cases of mass killings of civilians at remote ranches 90 minutes south of Texas marked a new level of barbarity in Mexico’s drug war.
—Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
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In covering the story of Ulrich Klopfer, media resort to euphemisms that betray the barbarity of an act sanctioned by half of the country.
—John Hirschauer, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
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However, Gates uses this moment not only to expose the barbarity of racial terrorism but to focus on the Black Church as the leading force in confronting it.
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
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Critics accused them of beautifying blood and barbed wire and barbarity, despite the blessing of the Royal British Legion.
—Matthew Sweet, The Economist, 4 Dec. 2020
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But the barbarity of Russia’s concentrated artillery fire has made the second stage far more challenging for many Ukrainians in the trenches.
—Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
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Americans see images of daylight shootouts in public squares or quinceañeras – the kind of barbarity that can seem like a Hollywood production.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2022
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To stop these acts of barbarity and brutality that have shocked and continue to shock our collective conscience.
—Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
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Picasso’s Guernica became a symbol against the barbarity and terror of war following the German bombing of the Basque town in 1937.
—Annika Erikson, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2021
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Just two weeks after the march, on September 15, white folk answered back with unimaginable barbarity.
—Time, Time, 27 Aug. 2017
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