BARBARIAN in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for BARBARIAN, such as:

1. War is the business of barbarians.
2. You are a barbarian at heart still, Paul.
3. They seemed barbarians, and they were saviours.
4. We need to fight this barbarian attitude to science.
5. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone.

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 Meanings and Examples of BARBARIAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
barbarian
 n.  a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
 a.  without civilizing influences
Classic Sentence:
1  Her husband was a gentleman and a man of some means; but to India, born in Georgia and reared in Virginia traditions, anyone not from the eastern seaboard was a boor and a barbarian.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  It was revealed to him that he had been a barbarian, a beast.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  You are a barbarian at heart still, Paul.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
4  Pfuel alone seemed to consider Napoleon a barbarian like everyone else who opposed his theory.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XI
5  You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
6  They seemed barbarians, and they were saviours.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
7  For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
8  Nor, wild as were these painted barbarians, were they the wildest feature of the scene.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
9  Those of the dyed barbarians who had chosen the cultivable tracts were, in comparison with those who had left their marks here, as writers on paper beside writers on parchment.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
Example Sentence:
1  The rest of the clan thinks the uniform is only fit for a barbarian or a man of the lowest class.
2  We need to fight this barbarian attitude to science.
3  The Roman Empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine.
4  War is the business of barbarians.