Barbarous has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | There are still barbarous nations. | |
| 2. | In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man is. | |
| 3. | The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act. | |
| 4. | I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. | |
| 5. | In 1493, the Vatican gave America to Spain and granted Africa to Portugal, "so that barbarous nations be reduced to the Catholic faith". | |
| 6. | Disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people. | |
| 7. | A more barbarous form of these rejoicings took place among the rude peoples of the north where great blocks of wood blazed in honor of Odin and Thor, and sacrifices of men and cattle were made to them. Mistletoe was cut then from the sacred oaks with a golden sickle by the Prince of the Druids. | |
| 8. | Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. | |
| 9. | "Don't you think it's a cruel, barbarous thing to whip a child . . . ANY child?" exclaimed Anne, her face flushing with earnestness. | |
| 10. | "O say, / what manner of mankind is here? What land / is this, to treat us in this barbarous way? / They grudge the very shelter of the sand, / and call to arms and bar our footsteps from the strand!" |