Example sentences for: massacred

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

  • But Palermo rose up against the French in the murderous Sicilian Vespers of 1282, when the locals massacred everyone who spoke Italian with a French accent and forced Charles to move his capital to Naples.

  • The murderers were said to be a band of machete-wielding Hutu rebels, remnants of the forces that massacred more than half a million rival Tutsi tribesmen and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.

  • First, Serb forces massacred 45 ethnic Albanians, including women and a child.

  • Once they were all at his compound he had them massacred — their influence had come to a sudden, bloody end.

  • According to the WP lead and front-page stories at the NYT , USAT and the LAT , all indications are that the discovery earlier this week of the bodies of dozens of massacred ethnic Albanians has galvanized the U.S. and NATO into planning imminent military action--probably airstrikes--against Yugoslavia.


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