How to Use massacre in a Sentence

massacre

1 of 2 noun

• The game turned out to be a complete massacre.
• The victims of the Hamas massacre could have been your friends.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
• After the massacres of Oct. 7, the burden is now on Israel to end the war in Gaza.
  — David McCormick, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2024
• The result was a massacre that did not stop until the Red Army was in Berlin.
  — Time, 27 July 2023
• Biden then bent to hug Kathy Lebel, owner of the bar where eight people died in the Oct. 25 massacre.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
• The October 7 massacre was the largest slaughter of Jews since the holocaust.
  — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• After the massacre, Biden and Hunter had visited the church.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• May 24 will mark one year since the massacre, which left 19 children and two teachers dead.
  — Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2023
• The three lived in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood when it was burned to the ground during the massacre.
  — Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
• Brett Cross tidies the memorial for his son, Uziyah Garcia, who was killed in the school massacre.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 16 May 2023
• The Sabra-Shatila massacre occurred less than a month later.
  — Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2023
• And when the government committed the massacre, Lai wanted to embark on a new kind of life.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
• Police said the gun used in the massacre was purchased by the gunman's father just four days prior to the violence.
  — Harriet Sokmensuer, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
• Sibley said the massacre was over with the shooter down just three to four minutes after the horror began.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 9 May 2023
• Israeli officials promise to 'open the gates of hell,' and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• Israeli officials promise to 'open the gates of hell,' and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2024
• For example, look at the very understandable description of the events of the massacre of the 7th of October as a pogrom.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• In fact, Wang had been shocked by the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and had questioned his own failure to support the protesters.
  — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
• The project was the brainchild of MullenLowe, a marketing firm working with Manuel Oliver, whose son was killed in the massacre.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• Several of the firearms were sold by an unlicensed seller at a gun show five months before the massacre.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• The crackdown came after a massacre left 46 female inmates dead last week at a women's prison.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 27 June 2023
• Years later, the stories done today will be reviewed to learn more about the October 7 massacre and the war that followed.
  — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• All three victims of the massacre were Black and law enforcement officials said they were slain because of the color of their skin.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
• He was found guilty in June of all 63 federal charges brought against him in connection with the synagogue massacre.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Again and again, Barbara had tried to understand the motivations for this massacre, to be able to wrap her mind around such heinousness, such filth.
  — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• The heated rhetoric is understandable at a time when Israelis are still burying the victims of the massacre while trying to make sense of how Hamas could have pulled this off.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 12 Oct. 2023
• Under federal law, gun sales can proceed if such a probe takes longer than three days, but since the massacre, 22 states have moved to expand that window.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• But lawmakers in both parties and former president Donald Trump hammered the agreement in the wake of the massacre by Hamas.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The drive-by massacre marked a sad bookend to a month marred by an earlier mass shooting in Texas, when a gunman opened fire in an El Paso Walmart and killed 22.
  — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
• Related:Allen massacre has many wondering: Why are gun control laws a non-starter in Texas?
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 May 2023

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massacre

2 of 2 verb

• Hundreds have been massacred in the uprising.
• He really massacred that song.
• The other team really massacred us on Saturday.
• As for you, the whites are going to hunt you down, or you will get massacred fighting back.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 June 2018
• They are being held at gunpoint by the same group that massacred their friends and loved ones.
  — Adam Sella, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• In the 14th century the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells and were massacred by the thousands.
  — David Kipen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• The hitman used an axe and machine gun to massacre the family.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2023
• Or the 26 churchgoers massacred in the pews at Sutherland Springs?
  — William Falk, The Week, 13 May 2023
• Nothing starts off a good reign quite like nearly massacring all of your subjects.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• The man who massacred 51 people at a Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque streamed video of the attack live on Facebook.
  — Casey Tolan, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2019
• They were greeted as usurpers of jobs and, in the West, then still a lawless frontier, many were brutalized and massacred.
  — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• After the chief and some buddies killed the two ranchers, the U.S. Army retaliated by massacring much of the Pomo tribe.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 24 June 2019
• At least dozens were massacred, and hundreds more were wounded.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 20 June 2019
• Two, the innocents who are massacred, in the cartels’ quest for power, will not take death lying down.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
• In one night the neighborhood was pillaged and set ablaze, its people massacred.
  — Nehemiah D. Frank, Time, 18 Dec. 2019
• Sixteen Afghans, nine of them children, massacred by a U.S. staff sergeant, lay in graves in Kandahar.
  — Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• The Persians broke through the center, but the Greek troops on both flanks wheeled inward and surrounded the enemy forces, who were then massacred.
  — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
• Roaming cats might stay away for up to 50 days, massacring helpless locals on a now barren landscape.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
• In the scene, Russian and Austrian forces have discovered an encampment of French soldiers at the edge of a snowy forest and rush in to massacre them.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
• He was killed four years later in a military coup, and much of his family was massacred.
  — Mujib Mashal Atul Loke, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• In the process, the Chinese government massacred at least hundreds, maybe thousands, of its own people, most of them students.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 6 June 2019
• In March, soldiers massacred 22 civilians, including three monks, at a monastery in Shan State.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• After a shot was fired, violence broke out and hundreds of black people were massacred.
  — CBS News, 17 Dec. 2019
• The young people massacred at the rave looked an awful lot like my son and his friends and their entire Hogh School graduating class here in Ogden, Utah.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 23 Oct. 2023
• This all takes place against the backdrop of a brutal 39th Central Asian War, in which five of the seven greatest robots were called upon to massacre their fellow robots.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• Hacking down a tree in memory of black people who have been massacred is a racially hateful act.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2019
• After a hard day of massacring Thracians, what better way to unwind than to read yet again how Achilles atop his chariot dragged Hector’s lifeless body around the walls of Troy?
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 7 May 2019
• The tale begins in Panama, where a sloth massacres a crocodile before being bagged by poachers.
  — William Earl, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
• The event comes nearly two weeks after a gunman massacred 22 people and wounded more than two dozen others at a Walmart.
  — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2019
• That summer, the town’s own Polish inhabitants (not the occupying Nazis) massacred its 1,600 Jewish citizens, locking most of them inside a barn and burning them alive.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024