How to Use carnage in a Sentence

carnage

noun
Definition of carnagenext
Synonyms for carnagenext
  • Reporters described the highway accident as a scene of carnage.
  • With the charges comes hope for change amid all the carnage and the heartache, Crifasi said.
    — Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
  • All people long to fit in—and some people just happen to find that in the world of nonstop carnage.
    — Barry Levitt, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
  • What do the police who encountered all that carnage do with those mental images?
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The teen, who last saw Brooks a few years ago, was gutted by the carnage allegedly wrought by his father.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2021
  • And what a wild ride this year has been; following carnage over the weekend, Bitcoin is up 8% in the last day.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Kelley committed suicide after fleeing the scene of the carnage.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Another nine people were hospitalized in the wake of the classroom carnage.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The carnage among guests staying in rooms above the seventh floor increased dramatically, said Heys.
    — Bo Emerson, ajc, 3 Dec. 2021
  • By the end of this year’s finale, the Lioness team has wrought an even nastier trail of carnage on two different continents.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The shop owner’s son didn’t, another child folded into the carnage of a Baghdad afternoon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • When the carnage began, Jackson's brother Tucker, 12, also was struck.
    — Sophie Carson, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Brooks is facing six counts of intentional homicide and other charges for the Christmas parade carnage and is being held in lieu of $5 million bond.
    — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • That would be on top of the carnage already left behind by Hurricane Helene, posing a potential record-breaking path of wreckage.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
  • To them, the mechanized carnage of World War I, with its fighter planes, machine guns and chemical weapons, was a step change in the history of human violence.
    — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • But there are changes that can be made to the streets of cities and towns that can stem the carnage.
    — Jake Blumgart, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Daly, well back of the pack while still a lap down, managed to avoid the carnage.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Then there may be a new round of carnage that comes from that.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But none of that could have prepared fans for the carnage to come in episode 5.
    — EW.com, 26 June 2024
  • The epicenter of the carnage is the Strait of Gibraltar.
    — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
  • Like The Wire, it, too, is set in Baltimore amidst the carnage and chaos of the drug war.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Mar. 2022
  • And hundreds gather along the route to cheer them on (or watch the carnage).
    — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
  • All the seeds that have been planted bear fruit and it’s just carnage.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 June 2022
  • The carnage — stretching from Lviv in the west to the eastern city of Kharkiv — could have been much worse.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Amid some of the worst carnage of the war, bodies were buried in common graves or left in the streets.
    — Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • And we have been bathed in this level of carnage all our lives.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The biologists didn’t know what to make of the carnage.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The carnage factor is high here, and Hero Doughnuts is right across the street.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 6 July 2022
  • Those hate crimes, of course, are separate from protests about the carnage in Gaza.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • The carnage was the work of just two orcas, nicknamed Port and Starboard, who are known to hunt sharks in the region.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023

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