Example sentences for: massacre

How can you use “massacre” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Doing their best to take advantage of the Chinese money scandal, Republicans have called on Clinton to cancel his trip to China scheduled for later this month, which will be the first U.S. presidential visit since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

  • The photo--an enlarged patch of thigh--is highlighted with a circle and an arrow, a graphic like one the New York Times might use to indicate the Bosnian village where a massacre took place.

  • Gilberto Guevara Niebla was arguably the single most important student leader of the Mexican student uprising of 1968--the uprising that was finally put down in a massacre by the Mexican army in October 1968.

  • Her refusal to apologize publicly for a 1919 massacre was badly received; Roy's win has been spun as a compensatory gesture from the colonialists to the former colony.

  • The Washington Post and New York Times lead with the tense fallout from last Friday's massacre of Albanians in Racak, in the Kosovo province--Yugoslavia's expulsion of William Walker, the U.S. diplomat heading up the international peace-monitoring mission in Kosovo.


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