How to Use carnage in a Sentence

carnage

noun

• Reporters described the highway accident as a scene of carnage.
• Amid some of the worst carnage of the war, bodies were buried in common graves or left in the streets.
  — Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
• Mostly, though, they have been forced to look on from a distance, having no more power to stop the carnage than seemingly anyone else.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2022
• The name of this city is already synonymous with the month-long carnage that Russian soldiers perpetrated here.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• Still, Leone’s misunderstood endurance test knows itself well enough to not make extreme carnage its only selling point.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2024
• Potapenko was left to watch the carnage unfold as Russian forces entered Ukraine and targeted a military base in Brovary.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2022
• Maure and other children had taken refuge in a dingy basement of a Donetsk orphanage to protect themselves from the carnage outside.
  — Rob Kuznia, Blake Ellis and Daniel A. Medina, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
• The human carnage and ruins of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, were on display this weekend after Russian troops withdrew.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2022
• Since the war began, Western nations have wielded ever-tightening economic sanctions in a bid to get Putin to halt the carnage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• The extremely powerful anti-war film explored the carnage of World War I and the disillusioned soldiers who came home.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2022
• Last week, much of the international focus was on the carnage out of the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, discovered once Ukrainian forces retook the area.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 11 Apr. 2022
• Daly, well back of the pack while still a lap down, managed to avoid the carnage.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2023
• Then there may be a new round of carnage that comes from that.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022
• But none of that could have prepared fans for the carnage to come in episode 5.
  — EW.com, 26 June 2024
• The epicenter of the carnage is the Strait of Gibraltar.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• And hundreds gather along the route to cheer them on (or watch the carnage).
  — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
• All the seeds that have been planted bear fruit and it’s just carnage.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 June 2022
• The carnage — stretching from Lviv in the west to the eastern city of Kharkiv — could have been much worse.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• And we have been bathed in this level of carnage all our lives.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2022
• The biologists didn’t know what to make of the carnage.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• The carnage factor is high here, and Hero Doughnuts is right across the street.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2022
• Those hate crimes, of course, are separate from protests about the carnage in Gaza.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
• The carnage was the work of just two orcas, nicknamed Port and Starboard, who are known to hunt sharks in the region.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023
• Aptos Labs isn’t the only company born out of the carnage of the Diem project.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 10 July 2022
• After the past two years of carnage, all of this may be so much water under the bridge.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
• The Arizona was the centerpiece of the carnage that morning.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• For the past days, weeks, and months, energy stocks have been one of the few respites from market carnage.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
• Still, the film is firmly in the pocket of Rockwell and Ronan as the odd pair working to solve the carnage.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
• Sarah Sherman and Molly Kearney jump in to stop the carnage.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Feb. 2023
• Among the carnage is Dent, who, after being knocked on his back, briefly enters the frame with one side of his face burned and bloodied.
  — EW.com, 5 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024