Sentence examples for a very savage from inspiring English sources

"This was a very savage killing".

The Stones used dark elements in a very savage way.

It's a very savage environment, in a lot of ways, a very cruel and sadistic environment.

But only a satirist — and one with a very savage pen — could do justice to what's happening to Ireland now.

"I thought it was going to be like Grange Hill, and it would be a very savage environment, but I settled in after a week or two, and it's where I really knuckled down with the drama".

"Aleksandr's marvelous," said Finch, who commends the oligarchs' cultural connoisseurship, their mastery of several languages, "and yet at the same time there's a very savage side to them where they believe all their wealth could be seized tomorrow".

People having intercourse is "making the beast with two backs" – that's a very, very savage image.

BBC journalist Ben Brown, who was present, described the violence on Twitter as "very savage — a terrifying moment that was a glimpse of the abyss #crimea hovers over".

When they came back, they broke down the door: 30 of them, very savage.

"I just think it's a very sort of savage idea to try and eliminate a commission that only tries to make things more beautiful," she says, a tad plaintively.

A very hungover Paul O'Grady (AKA Lily Savage) put in an appearance, joking he and Cilla Black would be taking over presenting the show, "giving out hangover cures and telling people how to fiddle their electricity meters".