How to Use carnage in a Sentence

carnage

noun

• Reporters described the highway accident as a scene of carnage.
• Turning off unneeded lights is a good way to reduce this carnage.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
• When the shelling began less than a month later, residents rushed to live-stream the carnage.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• Cruz had photos of the carnage on his phone, forwarded to him by another deputy.
  — al, 2 Jan. 2022
• In the carnage of Carti’s Inferno, all is fast, and all is rage.
  — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
• But some level of carnage is typical amongst the men that compete at Rampage, too.
  — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2024
• Premonitions of civil war served not as portents to be heeded, but as a warrant for carnage.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• My job required reporting on the daily carnage, on the promising lives cut down en masse, many of them belonging to people like me.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Just like that, the sorcerer would make the Mad Titan forget everything and avoid the carnage.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Jan. 2022
• The Radio Silence team say that is where the legacy carnage stopped — there was never a plan for Sidney or Gale to bite it.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• In areas where people were allowed to return, stunned residents walked the streets in sub-freezing temperatures, taking in the carnage.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2022
• If so, the carnage this time (unlike the attack on the World Trade Center) would be entirely self-inflicted.
  — Phillip Halpern, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2021
• The witchy tale of a young rookie (Dakota Johnson) learning a coven secretly runs her famous dance company is one of feminine strength and schlocky carnage.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
• About 90 seconds after the strike, the higher-resolution color camera abruptly swivels away from the carnage to point at an unremarkable street scene nearby for the next five minutes.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• The Buckeye Talk gang — after a miserable season attempting to predict outcomes (see the carnage below) — made their score predictions.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2021
• But there are changes that can be made to the streets of cities and towns that can stem the carnage.
  — Jake Blumgart, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 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
• Like The Wire, it, too, is set in Baltimore amidst the carnage and chaos of the drug war.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Amid some of the worst carnage of the war, bodies were buried in common graves or left in the streets.
  — Fortune, 21 Apr. 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

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024