savage

It was the longest city siege in the savage history of modern warfare.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

But under million-dollar luxury apartments chilled by whirling air conditioners, tenants in one of Seoul's last shanty towns suffer headaches in the savage heat.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

This savage, amoral and unfeeling Robin Hood has been written to invert everything modern fans like about him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

In their place is the perfect combination of brilliant individual skill bolted on to a savage work ethic and defensive solidity that will make them a formidable hurdle for Arsenal to overcome.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grown-ups going to think?” cries Piggy, the book’s preteen standard-bearer for logic and civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

"We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens; we are humans and we are Americans," the singer said after being given the Grammy for Best Musica Urbana Album.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

His uncompromising hostility toward revolutionaries inspired Thomas Paine to remark in 1776, “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.”

From National Geographic ● Jul. 3, 2023

"It's dangerous there, people have become savages and they hate each other. I tried to stay there so my kids could be close to their family, but I couldn't continue because nobody helped me."

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2023

As she’s all too fond of telling us, we are raising savages with all our new theories about talking, not spanking.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

She said owners of dogs like the one that savaged her arm should be banned from buying further animals.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024

During a nearly three-hour-long summation, Blanche savaged Cohen with that word, dubbing him a “G.L.O.A.T.,” or the greatest liar of all time.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2024

In a matter of minutes, I would be left standing in the arena all alone, like that toothless bear waiting to be savaged by the dogs.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Landau was aware of what constituted crowd appeal, but is too good-natured to savage many of the people along the way who perhaps deserve savaging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

It emphasized the long-standing national tradition of cartoons savaging public figures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

People would keep one eye on their bank accounts for missed deposits and the other on Wall Street, where concerns over the nation's creditworthiness could be savaging the value of people's life savings.

From Reuters ● May 23, 2023

Art critics delighted in savaging her work, generally deeming it kitschy and oversentimental.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022

Crookshanks darted up first; he had evidently pressed his paw to the knot on the trunk, because Lupin, Pettigrew, and Ron clambered upward without any sound of savaging branches.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling