How to Use en masse in a Sentence

en masse

adverb

• Her supporters arrived en masse for the rally.
• Visitors can even rent them, en masse, for group rides.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
• At first, businesses laid employees off en masse as the economy shut down.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• Surely there are better ways to do layoffs than en masse quick fires over Zoom or email or speakerphone.
  — Emily Peck, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2021
• Utah fans turned out en masse to the Pac-12 championship game in Las Vegas last week.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
• When supplier costs rise en masse, grocery stores tend to pass through the increases and then some, so that their gross margins also increase.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• The streamers heat the surrounding air, ripping electrons from air molecules en masse so that a larger current flows onto the ice crystals.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
• Even as automakers seek to phase out gasoline engines en masse, high-voltage car batteries remain in their early stages of mass production.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
• One Twitter user suggested calling restaurant goers call the restaurant en masse and simply asking them to cut it out.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 5 Jan. 2022
• What soon followed was police officers leaving en masse, quality-of-life issues and problems with public safety.
  — Fox News, 21 Dec. 2021
• As offices closed and factories halted production, companies laid off workers en masse, taking spending power out of people's hands.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2021
• The index fund was at first ridiculed, then tolerated, then grudgingly accepted, then reluctantly endorsed, and finally copied en masse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• But when people begin to die en masse at home, as happened in the early parts of the pandemic, the responsibility falls on coroners and medical examiners.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2022
• As Tsegay sped ahead of the lights on the final two laps, the fans rose en masse and roared.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
• During the summer months, large groups tend to arrive en masse at the start of the day.
  — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2024
• This springiness also helps the wiry tines grab broad leaves and pull them to you en masse.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2022
• Unlike in New York and Chicago, they haven't been bused and dropped off en masse.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• It’s one of those lines destined to be sung en masse at concerts.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2022
• The term gained greater ground in the 1980s, a decade that saw women entering the workforce en masse.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 July 2024
• Billy Williams caught the ball in the vines as the entire ballpark exhaled en masse.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2024
• The price of scrap metals caved that year, falling 30.8%, and the centers began to close en masse.
  — Sofia Fernandez, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• The media had arrived en masse, with satellite trucks taking over the road in front of Thurston.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• In turn, the new speaker swears-in the rest of the House, en masse. McCarthy appears to lack the votes to become speaker right now.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
• The restaurant now serves 50 to 80 writers each day, and once a week some arrive en masse and on two wheels.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• Its contracts ensure that members get time off to vote, and the union buses them en masse to the polls.
  — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• Black people from the South migrated to Boston en masse during the ‘40s and ‘50s.
  — Julian E.j. Sorapuru, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• The Stylers took to Twitter en masse to share their love for the jubilant song with the uber-personal lyrics.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2022
• At the time, rivers were on fire and birds were dying off en masse due to air and water pollution.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2022
• Budgets are tight on the home front too and subscription fatigue is hitting folks en masse.
  — Sasha Leigh Henry, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• The directors and the CEO had reached an impasse over the latter’s plan to take the company private; still, resigning en masse is an unheard-of step for a startup board.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024