How to Use "savagery" with Example Sentences

1. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery .

2. Such personal savagery helped maintain a kind of discipline among his troops .

3. Sixty years after it was founded , on a colonial system unrivalled in its savagery , the african giant was thriving on slaughter elsewhere .

4. But the financial crisis seems to have confirmed all the most deeply rooted french prejudices about the savagery of markets , and the need for the civilising influence of the state .

5. This duplicity helped keep the west sufficiently interested in the myth of " engaging the elite " -- because of course engaging the people would mean courting savagery .