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.
  • 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
  • With the charges comes hope for change amid all the carnage and the heartache, Crifasi said.
    — Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Infected staffers are believed to be the cause of much of the carnage.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 26 July 2021
  • The carnage factor is high here, and Hero Doughnuts is right across the street.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 6 July 2022
  • Adela has a look outside and sees some of the carnage taking place.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
  • 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
  • Aptos Labs isn’t the only company born out of the carnage of the Diem project.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 10 July 2022
  • After the past two years of carnage, all of this may be so much water under the bridge.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The Arizona was the centerpiece of the carnage that morning.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • For the past days, weeks, and months, energy stocks have been one of the few respites from market carnage.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The many bloody killings give you just enough gore to be grossed out without reveling in the carnage.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Still, the film is firmly in the pocket of Rockwell and Ronan as the odd pair working to solve the carnage.
    — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In Wuhan, China, where the film begins, a lone corpse on the street implies the viral carnage to come.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Yellow crime tape snapping in the wind was unfurled for blocks past either end of the worst of the carnage.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • In the carnage of Carti’s Inferno, all is fast, and all is rage.
    — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Such was the case with the atomic bomb, which made for grisly prophecies not only of the sudden carnage of a fiery blast but also of the prolonged suffering of a nuclear winter.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • As the fire spread and the girls began screaming for help, Singleton allegedly stood outside the home, watching the carnage, police said, according to FOX 17.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025

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