Wondering how to use Massacre in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as slaughter or carnage.
Massacre in a sentence
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Massacre meaning
- The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
- Murder.
- Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
Using Massacre
- The main meaning on this page is: The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms. | Murder. | Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
- Useful related words include: slaughter, mass murder, carnage, butchery.
- In the example corpus, massacre often appears in combinations such as: the massacre, massacre in, massacre of.
Context around Massacre
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Massacre
- In this selection, "massacre" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, house, nanjing, nanking, main, took and allegedly stand out and add context to how "massacre" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and zaria massacre in 2015 and at the massacre site in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "massacre" sits close to words such as devils, warn and brighton, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with massacre
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Wounded Knee Massacre main Mass grave for the dead Lakota after massacre of Wounded Knee. (15 words)
According to reports, North Carolina-based mercenary firm Blackwater was employed to commit the Fallujah massacre. (16 words)
A chamber of commerce attorney previously said the massacre was horrible but the nuisance it caused was not ongoing. (19 words)
After Hamas’ bloody massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, the alleged president made his way to Israel and that he was sending $100 million to Gaza, which will almost certainly be seized by Hamas and go for more jihad attacks upon Israel. (43 words)
Relatives of victims of the Ampatuan Massacre burn giant portraits of members of the Ampatuan clan during a visit at the massacre site in Masalay, Ampatuan town in Maguindanao on Sunday (18 Nov 2018), five days before the ninth anniversary. (40 words)
Andrew Ward, River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War (New York: Penguin, 2005), 227. John Cimprich states: The new paradigm in social attitudes and the fuller use of available evidence has favored a massacre interpretation.. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Even though the claim of a massacre in Jenin was disproven, even 20 years later, many people believe that a massacre took place in Jenin.
The artist may have thought of the My Lai massacre in the drawing, as that was the most publicized massacre of scores of massacres in Southeast Asia and particularly in Vietnam.
Even after 40 years of massacre, many riot victims vividly recall the horror tales of the massacre, allegedly sponsored by the then Congress regime.
With massacre after massacre streamed daily to audiences in the billions, Israel’s crimes have now been witnessed as if firsthand by a huge portion of humanity.
Decades after Biafra, we have witnessed this past replicate itself in mini-episodes such as the Odi Massacre in 1991 and Zaria Massacre in 2015.
Now, organizations such as the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission are working to document the Tulsa massacre and celebrate the achievements of Tulsa’s historic black business community.
The original film would go on to spawn two sequels: Sorority House Massacre IISorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die.
Investigation in Myanmar Reveals Disturbing Massacre, At Least 5 Mass GravesAn investigation by The Associated Press details a massacre and at least five mass graves in Myanmar's Rakhine State.
Relatives of victims of the Ampatuan Massacre burn giant portraits of members of the Ampatuan clan during a visit at the massacre site in Masalay, Ampatuan town in Maguindanao on Sunday (18 Nov 2018), five days before the ninth anniversary.
Andrew Ward, River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War (New York: Penguin, 2005), 227. John Cimprich states: The new paradigm in social attitudes and the fuller use of available evidence has favored a massacre interpretation..
Higashinakano had claimed in his book, Thorough Review of Nanjing Massacre, that she and the girl were different persons, and that she was not a witness of the Nanking massacre, but he was unable to prove this at trial.
Many cases of POW massacres have been reported in recent times, including October 13 massacre in Lebanon by Syrian forces and June 1990 massacre in Sri Lanka.
Memorials * In 1985, the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall was built by the Nanking Municipal Government in remembrance of the victims and to raise awareness of the Nanking Massacre.
Nag Hammadi massacre main The city was the site of the Nag Hammadi massacre in January 2010, wherein eight Coptic Christians were shot dead by three men.
Other popular culture references * "Valentines Massacre" – The Strasbourg massacre occurred on February 14, 1349, when several hundred Jews were publicly burnt to death, and the rest of them expelled from the city as part of the Black Death persecutions.
What was probably the single largest massacre of Chinese troops occurred along the banks of the Yangtze River on December 18 in the Straw String Gorge Massacre.
Wounded Knee Massacre main Mass grave for the dead Lakota after massacre of Wounded Knee.
According to reports, North Carolina-based mercenary firm Blackwater was employed to commit the Fallujah massacre.
A chamber of commerce attorney previously said the massacre was horrible but the nuisance it caused was not ongoing.
After Hamas’ bloody massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, the alleged president made his way to Israel and that he was sending $100 million to Gaza, which will almost certainly be seized by Hamas and go for more jihad attacks upon Israel.
Common combinations with massacre
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the massacre 46×
- massacre in 26×
- massacre of 18×
- saw massacre 10×
- massacre and 8×
- massacre at 8×
- massacre was 7×
- oct massacre 7×
- chainsaw massacre 7×
- massacre that 6×