Example sentences for: massacres

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

  • In the leading Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat , Huda al-Husseini said the bombing reflected the Clinton administration's growing penchant for "military solutions as a substitute for considered plans to impose peace and protect people from massacres."

  • His nickname is "the Butcher," and he carried out many of the brutal massacres ordered by Pol Pot.

  • Vittorio Zucconi, Washington correspondent of La Repubblica of Rome, highlighted President Clinton's remark that 20 th century history is largely the history of massacres carried out in Europe by Europeans, and said that Europe is "once again forcing Americans to take up the sword and die for villages whose names they don't even know."

  • "The papers provide crucial evidence linking massacres that claimed an estimated 14,000 lives to Serb army generals and police commanders all the way up to President Slobodan Milosevic," the Observer reported from Pristina.

  • Coverage of Kosovo in Western European papers Wednesday focused mainly on horrific new evidence of Serbian massacres and on anxieties about the KLA, which, the Süddeutsche Zeitung of Munich reported, is occupying strategic positions in Kosovo and hampering the Serb retreat.


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