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• The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians.From the entry spillover
• After World War I, the communists and Jews were accused to be traitors by the German right wing (the "stab-in-the-back myth"), ultimately culminating in their persecution and massacre.From the entry traitor
• Massacres that take place during war often seem to be rooted in irrational emotion.2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian. From the entry root
• In the November massacre in Douaouda, in Tipaza, men were castrated before their throats were slashed.2011, Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine. From the entry Douaouda
• The officers, hoping to make their troops obey orders, massacred whole prisonfuls of captives.2011, Will Whitaker, The King’s Diamond, HarperPress, →ISBN, page 311. From the entry prisonful
• Not surprisingly, the Gileadeans immediately distanced themselves from this act by blaming the massacre on Islamic extremists.2010, J. Brooks Bouson, editor, Critical Insights: The Handmaid’s Tale, Salem Press, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry Gileadean
• In the aftermath, İznik was sacked and partially destroyed, its population massacred.2003, Adam Peck, Manja Sachet, Turkey Guide, Open Road Publishing, →ISBN, page 295. From the entry İznik
• On February 7, the reactionaries massacred the workers at the station.[1974 April, “Wuhan—A City of Revolutionary Tradition”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 4, Peking, →OCLC, page 32, column 2. From the entry Jiang'an
• Lawrence) and the Turk of the massacres (see Delacroix and others).1973 November 24, John Canaday, “Art: Echoes of Ottoman Empire”, in The New York Times. From the entry pillager
• Some of the peasants escaped the massacre and were hiding in the thickets.1938, Robert Ervin Howard, chapter 1, in (Black Vulmea's Vengeance). From the entry Irishry
• They have massacred their adversaries by margins ranging from 9 and 8 downwards.1938 May 28, Bernard Darwin, “Golf: Ladies at Burnham”, in Country Life […], volume LXXXIII, number 2158, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 561…. From the entry rabbitess
• "Has the red wedding started?" one employee wrote on Slack, a reference to a massacre scene in "Game of Thrones."2022 November 3, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, “Elon Musk Begins Layoffs at Twitter”, in The New York Times. From the entry red wedding
• Plucky old Walder Frey gathers his family for a feast and toasts to their massacre of the Stark family.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry keel over
• They fell from grace from normaldom and formed this group of unfortunate casualties of the market god's massacres of humanity.2011, Munayem Mayenin, Laranska the Anatomy of Fear. From the entry normaldom
• And this spring marks the first anniversary of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were gunned down.2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in…. From the entry Uvalde
• Despite a ban on vigils by Beijing, Hong Kong residents found ways to remember the massacre that took place in Tiananmen 32 years ago.2021 June 4, Amanda Rivkin, “Hong Kong marks Tiananmen anniversary — in pictures”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 04 Jun…. From the entry Tiananmen
• Thai police prevented a commemoration on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre from taking place outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok.2020 June 4, UCA News Reporter, “Thai activists get creative to mark Tianamen massacre”, in La Croix International, Bayard, archived from…. From the entry take lying down
• When Stephen Paddock massacred dozens of “normies” at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Reddit’s incels celebrated the news as “PURE LIFEFUEL.”2018 May 5, David Futrelle, “The Time For 'Incel' Explainers Was Years Ago”, in Huffington Post. From the entry lifefuel
• A documentary about gun violence that has its premiere on HBO on Monday has been given extra topicality by the massacre in Charleston, S.C.2015 June 21, Neil Genzlinger, “Review: ‘Requiem for the Dead’ on HBO Explores Gun Violence in America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry voyeuristic
• In the business world certain tolerances and understandings had grown up between enemy states despite the daily massacre on the front lines.2013, John Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson's War, →ISBN. From the entry warweariness
• But the charge sheet is not just a recapitulation of instances of imperial incendiarism, such as the Amritsar massacre or the bombings of Iraqi villages.2012, Piers Brendon, ‘Beginning the Dissent’, Literary Review, volume 401. From the entry incendiarism
• In the wake of the massacre, the Trujillo dictatorship embarked on a renewed negrophobic, anti-Haitian campaign that infiltrated public education and other Dominican institutions.2006, Steven Gregory, The Devil behind the Mirror, page 181. From the entry negrophobic
• This new mode of racism emerged as a result of state terror and the official anti-Haitianism that followed it and served to rationalize the massacre.2004, Richard Lee Turits, Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History, Stanford University…. From the entry anti-Haitianism
• You speak of "ethnocide:" there has been no ethnocide of Breton people, that I know of (I'm aware of the Nantes massacres during the Revolution).1999 July 22, Gildas Hamel, “breton music”, in soc.culture.breton (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022. From the entry victimation
• Rest assured it cannot rest idle until Englishmen, male, female, and children are mercilessly massacred to the best interests of the country.1909, Rambles and Adventures in Australasia, Canada, India, etc. By St. Michael-Podmore, London, page 270. From the entry englishman
• There was no honor, just massacres.” “But in the end you were victorious.” “Starfleet is supposed to be about puzzling together the mysteries of life, not fighting wars.2023 October 26, Mike McMahan, “The Inner Fight” (16:32 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 9, spoken by Ma'ah…. From the entry shapeshifter
• He expressed outrage at the massacres of Jews by Hamas, as he should have, but he has struggled to be equally clear about valuing Gazan lives.2023 October 21, Nicholas D. Kristof, “We Must Not Kill Gazan Children to Try to Protect Israel’s Children”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Gazan
• “A sieve of a southern border, the supply chain massacred, food prices rising by the day, crime rampant in big cities and being browbeaten continuously by Beijing.2021 November 11, Mark Bonokoski, quoting Steve Flanagan, “BONOKOSKI: ‘Let's go Brandon! Let's go Brandon!’”, in Toronto Sun. From the entry let's go, Brandon
• So, I tried to keep the Gaelic to a minimum and even the accents as well because I did not want to massacre a beautiful language with my ineptitude.2020, Elina Emerald, “Author Notes”, in Betrothed to the Beast (Reformed Rogues), FSES Taito, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry Duolingo
• Rather touchingly, an ecumenical mass of reparation for the victims of the massacres was held on October 29, in the very English village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.2010 October 30, “Britain's Ancient Shame in Slovenia”, in The Economist, London. From the entry ecumenical
• Each year, we pause to remember the 1.5 million Armenians who were subsequently massacred or marched to their death in the final days of the Ottoman Empire.2009 April 24, Barack Obama, Statement of President Barack Obama on Armenian Remembrance Day. From the entry Meds Yeghern
• And in the end he, as well as three of his four children, shared Retief's fate in the massacre of Trekkers by the Zulu impis of Dingane.1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 212. From the entry impi
• In an attempt to reduce Chinese influence in that area, the Russians massacred more than seven thousand Chinese residents along the northern bank (as in Hailanpao) and burned their houses.1998, “Amur River Massacre”, in Wang Ke-wen, editor, Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, New York; London…. From the entry Hailanpao

Meaning of massacre

1. noun The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
2. noun Murder.
3. noun Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.

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How do you use massacre in a sentence?

Massacre is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians.”

What is a short sentence with massacre?

“Massacres of Diyarbekir”

What does massacre mean?

Massacre means the killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.