Example sentences for: mayhem

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

  • Amidst the developments, the NYT detects mayhem among the House Republicans.

  • G raphic Violence: Is a more realistic depiction of gore, in which someone's head is chopped off, affording a glimpse of severed tendons and gushing arteries, worse in terms of inuring viewers to violence than generic mayhem, in which the bad guys fall over dead?

  • The Guardian of London said in an editorial that Russia's allowing a "token" visit by a representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to the embattled republic "will do nothing to halt the gut-wrenching mayhem in Chechnya, where there remains no prospect of a ceasefire or even of a de-escalation."

  • If every new refinement since then in the quiet sapping of our national morale has earned a numerical "column," then by now, I estimate, we must be up somewhere close to "78 th column" (applied, maybe, to producers of the weekly network TV movies about bloody domestic mayhem) and "79 th column" (airplane passengers who bring carry-on luggage that they know won't fit into the overhead storage bins) or possibly even higher.

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