How to Use en masse in a Sentence

en masse

adverb
  • Her supporters arrived en masse for the rally.
  • Visitors can even rent them, en masse, for group rides.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
  • At first, businesses laid employees off en masse as the economy shut down.
    Anneken Tappe, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Surely there are better ways to do layoffs than en masse quick fires over Zoom or email or speakerphone.
    Emily Peck, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Utah fans turned out en masse to the Pac-12 championship game in Las Vegas last week.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
  • When supplier costs rise en masse, grocery stores tend to pass through the increases and then some, so that their gross margins also increase.
    Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The streamers heat the surrounding air, ripping electrons from air molecules en masse so that a larger current flows onto the ice crystals.
    Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Even as automakers seek to phase out gasoline engines en masse, high-voltage car batteries remain in their early stages of mass production.
    Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
  • One Twitter user suggested calling restaurant goers call the restaurant en masse and simply asking them to cut it out.
    Dan Carson, Chron, 5 Jan. 2022
  • What soon followed was police officers leaving en masse, quality-of-life issues and problems with public safety.
    Fox News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • As offices closed and factories halted production, companies laid off workers en masse, taking spending power out of people's hands.
    Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The index fund was at first ridiculed, then tolerated, then grudgingly accepted, then reluctantly endorsed, and finally copied en masse.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But when people begin to die en masse at home, as happened in the early parts of the pandemic, the responsibility falls on coroners and medical examiners.
    Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2022
  • As Tsegay sped ahead of the lights on the final two laps, the fans rose en masse and roared.
    oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • During the summer months, large groups tend to arrive en masse at the start of the day.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2024
  • This springiness also helps the wiry tines grab broad leaves and pull them to you en masse.
    Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Unlike in New York and Chicago, they haven't been bused and dropped off en masse.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • It’s one of those lines destined to be sung en masse at concerts.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The term gained greater ground in the 1980s, a decade that saw women entering the workforce en masse.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 July 2024
  • Billy Williams caught the ball in the vines as the entire ballpark exhaled en masse.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2024
  • The price of scrap metals caved that year, falling 30.8%, and the centers began to close en masse.
    Sofia Fernandez, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • The media had arrived en masse, with satellite trucks taking over the road in front of Thurston.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In turn, the new speaker swears-in the rest of the House, en masse. McCarthy appears to lack the votes to become speaker right now.
    Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The restaurant now serves 50 to 80 writers each day, and once a week some arrive en masse and on two wheels.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • Its contracts ensure that members get time off to vote, and the union buses them en masse to the polls.
    Time, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Black people from the South migrated to Boston en masse during the ‘40s and ‘50s.
    Julian E.j. Sorapuru, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Stylers took to Twitter en masse to share their love for the jubilant song with the uber-personal lyrics.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2022
  • At the time, rivers were on fire and birds were dying off en masse due to air and water pollution.
    Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Budgets are tight on the home front too and subscription fatigue is hitting folks en masse.
    Sasha Leigh Henry, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The directors and the CEO had reached an impasse over the latter’s plan to take the company private; still, resigning en masse is an unheard-of step for a startup board.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024

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