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
• The carnage from the third inning: 24 batters to the plate, seven singles, seven walks, four doubles, two errors and one hit by pitch.
  — Mitch Light, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
• The shooting also sent shock waves through Europe, with officials in Brussels expressing their outrage at the carnage.
  — Stefanie Dazio, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025