SAVAGE in a Sentence

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224 example sentences for SAVAGE, such as:

1. This soothing savage had redeemed it.
2. Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
3. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
4. She reached her room before she became savage.
5. Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!

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 Meanings and Examples of SAVAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
savage
 a.  in a state of nature; wild; untamed; uncultivated; inhuman; brutal; not civilized; lacking polish; rude
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was as senseless and savage as a physical fight between two enemies in the darkness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  "How sweet I'd look in that dress," thought Scarlett, a savage envy in her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  He came up the walk with the springy stride of a savage and his fine head was carried like a pagan prince.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  The mottled wise old eyes saw deeply, saw clearly, with the directness of the savage and the child, undeterred by conscience when danger threatened her pet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  There was such a savage bright glitter in his eyes when he spoke that Scarlett shrank from him, frightened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
6  Dorset was as difficult to amuse as a savage; but even his self-engrossment was not proof against Lily's arts, or rather these were especially adapted to soothe an uneasy egoism.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  She reached her room before she became savage.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
9  It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
10  But there was no time for shuddering, for now the savage went about something that completely fascinated my attention, and convinced me that he must indeed be a heathen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
11  For now the savage goes up to the empty fire-place, and removing the papered fire-board, sets up this little hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the andirons.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
12  Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk sleeping by the savage's side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
13  This savage was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading those frigid inscriptions on the wall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
14  This soothing savage had redeemed it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
15  In a countryman, this sudden flame of friendship would have seemed far too premature, a thing to be much distrusted; but in this simple savage those old rules would not apply.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
Example Sentence:
1  The article was a savage attack on her past actions.
2  This was a savage attack on a defenceless young girl.
3  Three villagers were hacked to death in a savage attack.
4  The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region.
5  She had been badly hurt in what police described as 'a savage attack'.
6  Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
7  Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
8  Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
9  The attack is one of a series of savage sexual assaults on women in the university area.
10  Only the tribesmen increased their clamor, war-drums booming and voices raised in savage folk songs.
11  Today's newspapers made a savage attack on the unions for their refusal to negotiate.
12  Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!
13  And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting -- called to the paradise of union -- I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.
14  "Why, Mr. Crusoe," said the savage heating the giant caldron, "we'd love to have you for dinner!"