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Example sentences for: massacre

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Mithridates VI, King of Pontus (on the Black Sea), resisted Roman occupation, temporarily occupied Pergamum, and ordered the massacre of all Romans.
The Independent said that Thursday's gun massacre in Fort Worth, Texas, "may in some respects have done the country a favour."
Speaking on television and in the print media about the Texas massacre, they juxtapose today's "weak" gun laws with the "tough" restrictions they would prefer.
He had been in prison on and off for "subversion" after he helped lead the democracy movement that culminated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
In recent days, the National Rifle Association and its allies have argued that additional gun laws would not have helped avert the April 20 Colorado high-school massacre, because gun laws already on the books proved useless.