savages in English

noun
1
(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.
The film's black characters (many of them white actors in blackface) are either servile or savages .
synonyms:barbarianwild manwild womanprimitive
verb
1
(especially of a dog or wild animal) attack ferociously and maul.
ewes savaged by marauding dogs
synonyms:maulattacktear to pieceslacerateclawbite

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "savages" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "savages", or refer to the context using the word "savages" in the English Dictionary.

1. You're both savages.

2. Those Chechens are savages.

3. Those men are savages.

4. Aren't we greedy savages?

5. Your colleagues are savages.

6. You shouldn't call them savages.

7. You're a lot of savages!

8. Defending our homeland from extremist savages?

9. That's an island inhabited by savages.

10. The gentle savages own the future.

11. There's too many savages out there.

12. Dmitri and Jopling, ruthless, cold-blooded savages.

13. Uncivilised Afrikaner savages with a thin white veneer

14. To be thus Condescended to by heathen savages was intolerable

15. That holy institution meant to breed virtue in savages.

16. So are we gonna let these savages kill us?

17. But like the good savages, I do my own killing.

18. It's not exactly a savage horde with 20 savages, is it?

19. You see what caring about savages unworthy of your status brings?

20. I'm the hard case you're up against out here, not them childish savages.

21. Look Sully, I want you to learn these savages from the inside.

22. Brutes AND SAVAGES is the filmed document of his death-defying adventures

23. Is it impossible combine the hardiness of these savages with the intellectualness of man?

24. All wildlings are liars and savages with no loyalty to anything or anyone.

25. An arcane medical procedure performed by savages upon those possessed of evil spirits.

26. Synonyms for Autochthons include natives, indigenes, aborigine, aboriginals, indigens, locals, inhabitants, bushmen, primitives and savages

27. The primitive savages, who were the ancestors of all men, however Civilized they may be, were students of Nature

28. So let us henceforth no longer abhor so very greatly the cruelty of the Anthropophagous—that is, man-eating—savages.

29. A good many children seem to be like savages in distinguishing those to whom one is Bound to speak the truth

30. Without knowledge or morals: Some of the early explorers thought of the local people as Benighted savages who could be exploited.

31. Gypsies have often been portrayed as lawless savages, and the film tries to redress the balance by showing their culture as it really is.

32. As the student's uniforms are traded for spears and war paint, the innocent boys devolve into uncontrolled, bloodthirsty hunters and ultimately, savages intent on killing the "beast".

33. In extraordinary cases, the poor savages called in the aid of their own doctors or Conjurors, who officiated with great noise and mummery, but with little benefit

34. View in context The poor savages saw with dismay the ravages of a malady, loathsome and agonizing in its details, and which set the skill and experience of their Conjurors and

35. "Savage Anxieties" is an excellent help to understand the development of the Ancient Greek View about the Savages and the embracement of such a view by later cultures and societies

36. 30 When he was taken aboard, and saw its wild, long-haired, red-faced crew, and a large cauldron on the deck, he fainted, thinking these savages were about to eat him.

37. “Acquittal is the essential book for anyone who wants to truly understand the justice system today.”—Don Winslow, author of Savages and Kings of Cool “Truth is stranger than fiction, especially in the courtroom…[Gabriel gives] us surprising and dramatic new revelations about cases that we thought we knew.

38. In other words, the hybridity adherents want to suggest first, that the colonialist discourse’s Ambivalence is a conspicuous illustration of its uncertainty; and second, that the migration of yesterday’s “savages” from their peripheral spaces to the homes of their “masters” underlies a blessing invasion that, by “Third-Worlding

39. A close scrutiny of the bauble convinced the ape-man that the article was of virgin gold, and he was surprised, for it was the first time that he had ever seen golden ornaments among the savages of Africa, other than the trifling Baubles those near the coast had purchased or stolen from Europeans.

40. He was one of those aboriginals of Canada who had partially conformed to the habits of civilization and the doctrines of Christianity, under the influence of the French Colonists and the Catholic priests; who seem generally to have been more successful in conciliating, taming, and converting the savages, than their English and Protestant rivals.

41. The Arabs are an ethnic group, a minority that has been mistreated for hundreds of years and labelled as savages, when truly they are the epitome of civilisation; responsible for the invention of the wheel, the invention of the numbers you use today, without Arabs you’d still be using Roman numerals and the zero would cease to exist, they are