MASSACRE in a Sentence
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23 example sentences for MASSACRE, such as:
1. A massacre took place in the chapel.
2. Troops indiscriminately massacred the defenceless population.
3. Just at this time the famous massacres took place in the south of France.
4. I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.
5. Waiting for the future of you appear, see the last side of life on pay a massacre.
2. Troops indiscriminately massacred the defenceless population.
3. Just at this time the famous massacres took place in the south of France.
4. I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.
5. Waiting for the future of you appear, see the last side of life on pay a massacre.
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Meanings and Examples of MASSACRE
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massacre
v. kill a large number of people indiscriminately
n. the savage and excessive killing of many people
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 A massacre took place in the chapel.
2 On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a battle at Waterloo.
3 Its light favored Blucher's ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the massacre.
4 The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.
5 The massacre of men who were fellow Christians, and of the same Slavonic race, excited sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against the oppressors.
6 But when the hunter reached the scene of the ruthless massacre, the ledge was tenanted only by the dead.
7 As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself.
8 Despite all Kutuzov's efforts to avoid that ruinous encounter and to preserve his troops, the massacre of the broken mob of French soldiers by worn-out Russians continued at Krasnoe for three days.
9 Amid the massacre he escaped to the refuge of Rutulian land and the armed defence of Turnus' friendship.
10 , massacres were excused as the natural resentment of intelligence against government by ignorance.
11 Thoughtful Afro-Americans with the strong arm of the government withdrawn and with the hope to stop such wholesale massacres urged the race to sacrifice its political rights for sake of peace.
12 Just at this time the famous massacres took place in the south of France.
13 Add, for all must needs be told, the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown ferocious over liberty gone mad.
14 I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.
15 At length I saw all our Italian women, and my mother herself, torn, mangled, massacred, by the monsters who disputed over them.
Example Sentence:
1 The press has reported the massacre of thousands of people for their religious beliefs.
2 If we were to crane our necks in the direction of every new massacre or every inexplicable act of human cruelty on the planet we would have lost our heads a long time ago.
3 Waiting for the future of you appear, see the last side of life on pay a massacre.
4 You're a disgrace boy! Sleeping in a cupboard, eating frozen chicken and massacring a sausage roll on bed!
5 Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
6 Troops indiscriminately massacred the defenceless population.