How to Use carnage in a Sentence

carnage

noun

• Reporters described the highway accident as a scene of carnage.
• And, saddest of all, came the profiles of the lives snuffed out in the carnage.
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2021
• But there are changes that can be made to the streets of cities and towns that can stem the carnage.
  — Jake Blumgart, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
• With the charges comes hope for change amid all the carnage and the heartache, Crifasi said.
  — Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
• By the time the carnage was over, the Jazz had made 16 of 23 shots in the second quarter.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• Daly, well back of the pack while still a lap down, managed to avoid the carnage.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2023
• Then there may be a new round of carnage that comes from that.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022
• But none of that could have prepared fans for the carnage to come in episode 5.
  — EW.com, 26 June 2024
• The epicenter of the carnage is the Strait of Gibraltar.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• Like The Wire, it, too, is set in Baltimore amidst the carnage and chaos of the drug war.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Mar. 2022
• And hundreds gather along the route to cheer them on (or watch the carnage).
  — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
• All the seeds that have been planted bear fruit and it’s just carnage.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 June 2022
• The carnage — stretching from Lviv in the west to the eastern city of Kharkiv — could have been much worse.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• Amid some of the worst carnage of the war, bodies were buried in common graves or left in the streets.
  — Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
• And we have been bathed in this level of carnage all our lives.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2022
• The biologists didn’t know what to make of the carnage.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• Infected staffers are believed to be the cause of much of the carnage.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 26 July 2021
• The carnage factor is high here, and Hero Doughnuts is right across the street.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2022
• Adela has a look outside and sees some of the carnage taking place.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
• The suspects ran back to the car about 10 seconds later, once the carnage was over.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 4 June 2021
• Those hate crimes, of course, are separate from protests about the carnage in Gaza.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
• The carnage was the work of just two orcas, nicknamed Port and Starboard, who are known to hunt sharks in the region.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023
• Aptos Labs isn’t the only company born out of the carnage of the Diem project.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 10 July 2022
• After the past two years of carnage, all of this may be so much water under the bridge.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
• The Arizona was the centerpiece of the carnage that morning.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• For the past days, weeks, and months, energy stocks have been one of the few respites from market carnage.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
• The many bloody killings give you just enough gore to be grossed out without reveling in the carnage.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• Still, the film is firmly in the pocket of Rockwell and Ronan as the odd pair working to solve the carnage.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
• That image is a little haunting today, given the city’s recent wildfire carnage, but that emergent feeling adds to the haunted mood pervading The Studio.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
• By the end of the carnage, the pop star is incarcerated for the murders, but the Levelists, who all managed to escape the compound before police arrived, are spread out across disparate communities, blending in, waiting.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025