How to Use massacre in a Sentence

massacre

1 of 2 noun
  • The game turned out to be a complete massacre.
  • But the massacre weighs on him.
    — Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • The world sees the massacres in Lebanon.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Cruz began the massacre on the first floor.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
  • His cousin lost his only son in the protest massacre.
    — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The massacre was a prelude to war.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The victims of the Hamas massacre could have been your friends.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The massacre left an imprint on Mitchem.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 June 2026
  • Both are filled with markers that call back to the Christchurch massacre.
    — Odette Yousef, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • This full-body massacre wasn’t the result of a camping trip gone awry.
    — David Hu, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2026
  • This would mean more massive massacres and arrests.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • There was a massacre, 900 people were killed in the first few hours.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Did the government know about the massacre?
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This would come to be known as the Brown’s Chicken massacre.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • He was shot and killed by police an hour after the massacre started.
    — USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • So far, 148 girls, students have been killed and this is a big massacre.
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Three of those officers were among the dozens wounded in the massacre.
    — ABC News, 27 May 2026
  • For much of my childhood, the massacre was not mentioned in my textbooks.
    — Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And in September, there were two back-to-back prison massacres.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The massacre that happened [in this episode] really did take place.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Fletcher’s life would never be the same after the massacre.
    — Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • So is Lilly, who is the sole survivor to have seen the massacre clearly.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Christchurch massacre killed 51 people.
    — Tom Winter, NBC news, 19 May 2026
  • The school district fired Arredondo three months after the massacre.
    — Leigh Waldman, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The regime is resorting to massacres to suppress the unrest.
    — Shahrnush Parsipur, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The massacre comes like an unending nightmare.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Two cities — one a massacre site, one under fire — reveal why Ukrainians won't trade land for peace.
    — Dominic Pino, Washington Post, 28 June 2026
  • Athalia’s family returned home a few days after the massacre.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
  • 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 strike and massacre prompted Congress to take a hard look at labor reform.
    — Robert Forrant, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026

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.
  • Nothing starts off a good reign quite like nearly massacring all of your subjects.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • At least dozens were massacred, and hundreds more were wounded.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 20 June 2019
  • The hitman used an axe and machine gun to massacre the family.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 Jan. 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
  • As many as eight thousand citizens were massacred.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • After a shot was fired, violence broke out and hundreds of black people were massacred.
    — CBS News, 17 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • Hamas is a terrorist group that provoked a terrible war by massacring civilians.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Roaming cats might stay away for up to 50 days, massacring helpless locals on a now barren landscape.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • And to think that people plotted to target this event, came there with automatic weapons and massacred people in cold blood.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 14 Dec. 2025
  • No political power has the right to massacre its own people in order to preserve itself or to silence the truth.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The tale begins in Panama, where a sloth massacres a crocodile before being bagged by poachers.
    — William Earl, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Iran is at war, and its regime, after massacring protesters in January, has now hardened in combat.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Hamas fighters swept across the border fence from Gaza and massacred more than 1,000 people.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Thousands were massacred in Tiananmen Square.
    — Madeleine Ballard, Time, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Or the 26 churchgoers massacred in the pews at Sutherland Springs?
    — William Falk, The Week, 13 May 2023
  • Her great-grandparents, innkeepers in modern-day Belarus, were massacred by the Nazis along with most of their town.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 June 2026
  • The visitors ended up massacring a village, which left her devastated.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • At least 100,000 Poles were massacred by the UPA.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
  • 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 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
  • During the intense pre-invasion bombing, the Japanese massacred scores of people in caves, forests, and on busses.
    — National Geographic, 13 Dec. 2019

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