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How to use carnage in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Carnage means death and destruction. Example: “There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.”

Examples of carnage by meaning

nounDeath and destruction.

  • There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.

nounAny great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.

  • The game against Sri Lanka and Australia was carnage with Australia winning by 287 runs.

nounA heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.

  • But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.2014, Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
  • It was total carnage.2015, Adam Jones, Bomb: My Autobiography

nounAny chaotic situation.

  • This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.2017 January 20, Donald Trump, The Inaugural Address

More sentences with carnage

  • There was horrendous carnage at the scene of the plane crash.From the entry horrendous
  • And yet, given how the carnage unfolded, a surprising number of named characters survived.2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived…. From the entry dance card
  • The two tangoes running toward the carnage at the prison door dropped simultaneously, dead in their tracks.2005, Charles W. Sasser, Detachment Delta: Operation Aces Wild, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370. From the entry tango
  • The police stood by like tamashbeens (spectators) watching the carnage.2017, Khushwant Singh, The End of India. From the entry tamashbeen
  • Instead of walking to the carnage like your average Mr.2010, Matthew Collins, Geoffrey Collins, The Ultimate Zombie Hunter's Handbook, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry orphanarium
  • In the carnage of that first summer the Red Army had lost its entire tank park of nearly twenty thousand.1965, Alan Clark, Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45,, Harper Perennial, published 1985, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry tank park
  • Within days, the iShares Expanded Tech-Software ETF (IGV) was in freefall, and traders at Jefferies had already coined a name for the carnage: the SaaSpocalypse.2026 February 17, Jon Markman, “The SaaS Apocalypse Or The SaaS Evolution?”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2026. From the entry SaaSpocalypse
  • Just complete murder and carnage.” “Everything seemed calm at first but then this guy in a suit shows up talking about investment opportunities.2021 December 16, Trey Parker, “South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID” (29:23 from the start), in South Park, spoken by Fire Chief…. From the entry moon
  • For instance, in the film Dances with Wolves, a pan of an uninhabited landscape contrasts the gruesome beginning footage that depicts the carnage of war.2013, Monle Lee, Carla Johnson, Principles of Advertising: A Global Perspective, page 197. From the entry pan
  • Judging from the graphic evidence of crustacean carnage all around, it's a safe guess as to who's ahead in the ancient battle between hardshell and Homo sapiens.1987 July 17, Marianne Kyriakos, “THE BEST LITTLE CRABHOUSES IN WASHINGTON”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post…. From the entry crustacean
  • Only yestereve, you wot, one of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms came limping to us with the news of the awful carnage the foul fiend had wrought on his master's household.1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008. From the entry yestereve

Meaning of carnage

  1. noun Death and destruction.
  2. noun The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
  3. noun Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.

Full definition of carnage

Questions about carnage in a sentence

How do you use carnage in a sentence?
Carnage is used as a noun. For example: “There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.”
What is a short sentence with carnage?
“It was total carnage.”
What does carnage mean?
Carnage means death and destruction.

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