Sample Sentences for
massacre
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    And Billy had seen the greatest massacre in European history, which was the firebombing of Dresden.  (source)
    massacre = the savage and excessive killing of many people
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    His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties.  (source)
    massacres = instances of savage and excessive killing of many people
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    It wasn't war today, it was massacre,  (source)
    massacre = the savage and excessive killing of many people
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    They were thought to be behind the terrible Mumbai massacre of 2008.†  (source)
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    We conducted roach massacres in the kitchen at night, because that was when they came out in force.†  (source)
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    And who was massacred here?  (source)
    massacred = the savage and excessive killing of many people
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    I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.†  (source)
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    That night, the Japanese threw a party to celebrate the massacre.†  (source)
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    And in Ayemenem, where once the loudest sound had been a musical bus horn, now whole wars, famines, picturesque massacres and Bill Clinton could be summoned up like servants.†  (source)
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    You better get out of here or you'll get massacred.†  (source)
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    Himself, he had worked for years on the synthesis of antibodies; he was at present in a blind alley, and at Mohalis there was no one who was interested, no one to stir him, but he was having an agreeable time massacring the opsonin theory, and that cheered him.†  (source)
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    A great massacre, it seemed, was in the offing.†  (source)
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    For days afterward, our little tribe of savages formed raiding parties and conducted massacres throughout Coalwood.†  (source)
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