4 example sentences using savage.
Savage used in a sentence
Savage in a sentence as a noun
He has markedly different restrictions on his life, but you're ignoring all that to try and paint him as wealthy compared to "ye olde ignorant savage"
This way Carreon can pretend that he had to abandon his just campaign under pressure of the savage hordes of the Internet and try again with a softer target than Inman.
Savage in a sentence as a verb
It is a government that is increasingly relying on citizen ignorance to secretly make and implement policy, and on savage reprisals to terrorize those who might expose the process.
Soon we won't be able to hold ourselves up as beacons of freedom to those in savage, barbaric places like China where all Internet usage is surveilled or Russia where you can be targeted for being gay or being a member of the press who has printed stories critical of the State.
Savage definitions
a member of an uncivilized people
See also: barbarian
attack brutally and fiercely
criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
See also: barbarian barbaric uncivilized uncivilised wild