savage
Example Sentences
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In July of 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg, over a hundred thousand Union and Confederate soldiers met in a savage battle.
From Literature
She is used to tough questions - but nothing quite so savage and personal as this.
From BBC
All would be lost, however, without Mays’ quicksilver brilliance — the way he can shift from savage irony to vindictive rage to godless despair in the space of a line.
From Los Angeles Times
In England the media coverage of refereeing is savage.
From BBC
“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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
