How to Use mass in a Sentence

mass

1 of 3 noun

• The day of the shooting the girls were practicing at the gym, just around the corner from the mass shooting.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 26 June 2023
• Of course, that's the anniversary of this mass shooting.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• The way to heal is to look at the real causes behind mass shootings in schools.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• The bull charges out of the metal door, dark brown, 400 kilos of mass on a mission to destroy.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• The process converts some of the total mass of the atoms into energy.
  — Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
• The number is based on height, weight, gender, age, muscle mass, and body fat.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 8 Aug. 2023
• What have the logistics been like for the funeral mass?
  — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2023
• Look at the mass shootings, the rhetoric about America’s cities burning.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Like other mass shootings, Sandy Hook was good for sales.
  — James Bandler, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
• The event took place just a few days after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• First responders are trained to focus on two things in a mass shooting event: Stop the killing and stop the dying.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• But in the wake of the mass shootings in Maine, there’s another legal principle at stake – the right to live in peace.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
• Over 1,300 Israelis lost their lives in acts of mass killing on that day, mostly civilians.
  — Avner Cohen, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2023
• This wasn’t a random act of violence, like the mass shooting on Oct. 25 at a bar and grill in Lewiston, Maine.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• The mass shooting is part of a broader rise in antisemitism in recent years.
  — Sabrina Souza, CNN, 14 June 2023
• That effect shifts where mass is distributed and speeds up the planet’s spin.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• For Mark and Debbie Johnson, the Cook’s tragedy is their second brush with a mass shooting at a concert.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• The trial is a rare case of parents being charged in connection to a child's mass shooting.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Much of the mass timber in the structure came from Boise Cascade tree plantations in Oregon.
  — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
• Russia still bans protests on the pretext that mass gatherings are a health hazard.
  — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
• People gather Sunday at a vigil for the victims of the mass shootings in Lewiston.
  — Madison Lambert, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Testosterone helps to build lean muscle mass which in turn can help to burn fat more efficiently.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• The appointment comes nine days after the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs rally where 25 people were shot.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2024
• This would enable Hamas to get away with one mass murder while actively preparing for the next.
  — Michael Oren and Jason Greenblatt, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• This mass could be from something like a tumor, or from scars from previous surgeries.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 4 Oct. 2023
• The mother of 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez, who was slain in a mass shooting this summer, spoke hours into a hearing.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
• Two mass shootings occurred and at least 26 people were injured and at least three people died in shootings.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• At least seven others were injured in what became the second-deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. this year.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
• The hostage families have become a political force in Israel, staging mass protests to demand more be done to free their relatives.
  — Alex Marquardt, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024

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mass

2 of 3 verb

• Clouds were massing on the horizon.
• The generals massed their troops.
• A large crowd of demonstrators massed outside the courthouse.
• But dirt paths lead along the base of the hills where the poppies massed.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• No Greek houses will mass in the fields south of the stadium, across 17th Street.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2020
• This is a great way to mass select messages in the Mail or Messages app.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 8 Apr. 2022
• The 8 to 9-inch plants can be spaced a foot apart in garden beds and used as edging or massed in groups.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2024
• That’s one of the questions facing the U.S. and its allies as Russian troops mass along the Ukraine border.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2022
• There are few services for the tens of thousands of migrants who mass in city streets around Europe.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• At Oakton High School, students massed on the football field to write the names of those killed in Gaza on their forearms in black marker.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• While Tevva now has the approval to mass produce its electric truck, the company is not new to the segment.
  — Ed Garsten, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks, Israel has stepped up airstrikes, but also massed troops, tanks and other equipment on its border with Gaza.
  — Javed Ali, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
• The surge in migration began months before the war, as Russian forces began to mass near Ukraine, and has picked up speed since.
  — Santiago Pérez, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• That was just the proof of concept, but now O.MG and Hak5 have been able to mass produce the cable and add a few other features such as keylogging.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 2 Sep. 2021
• Months later, Putin began massing troops at the border.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• The wasps don’t sting people and a clear sign of their activity is BMSB egg masses that darken to a black color.
  — oregonlive, 24 June 2023
• And post-war, there were factories ready and willing to mass produce all of the plastics that people has begun to rely on.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
• All night a crowd of anxious relatives and friends of the Titanic’s passengers were massed in front of the line’s offices at No. 9 Broadway.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• One year ago, President Biden was bracing for the worst as Russia massed troops in preparation to invade Ukraine.
  — Aamer Madhani, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Mexico is taking steps to keep migrants from massing along the border.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• And while the coup-plotters allowed supporters to mass in the streets, many Nigeriens bitterly oppose their putsch.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Scrape egg masses off with a putty knife into a bucket of hot, soapy water; don’t smash them because some may survive and hatch next spring.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 14 June 2023
• For over a century, weapons have been lethal enough that armies who mass exposed forces in the open have suffered annihilating loss rates.
  — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
• Sunday night, on the eve of the controversial vote, government supporters massed in Tel Aviv at the same spot that opponents had the day before.
  — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
• Tanks and tens of thousands of troops have massed at the border, and Israeli leaders have spoken of an undefined next stage in operations.
  — TIME, 22 Oct. 2023
• Lee said Russia’s decision to mass its military around such a large swath of Ukraine forces the smaller nation to stretch its defenses.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2022
• Israeli troops were massed along its border ahead of a possible ground incursion, and have warned more than 1 million Gazans to retreat to the enclave’s south, to escape the worst of the coming storm.
  — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• Since the shooting, there has been widespread criticism of the officers who massed outside the school and waited in hallways as the shooter could be heard firing an AR-15-style rife in a classroom.
  — CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• In Berlin two weeks ago, farmers in their tractors from across Germany massed in the city center near the Brandenburg Gate, blocking access to parliament.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• Russian troops continue to mass on the border in neighboring Belarus, taking up positions that are just a 140-mile drive north of Kyiv.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022

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mass

3 of 3 adjective

• Television is a mass medium.
• But in the wake of the mass exodus, the makeup of the board of directors is unclear.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Last year, there were six hundred and fifty-six mass shootings in the United States.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2024
• When they don’t get used up by our muscles (due to less mass), they get converted to fat.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 26 June 2023
• But there are fewer than two dozen mass producers in the country.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
• But the way that there's been mass arrests, there's been a real deprivation of due process, like that's got to end.
  — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2024
• The study found that about half of all mass shooters and nearly all school shooters express their plans to others.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• The event turns the tables on most food festivals by embracing the mass appeal of burgers and fries and such.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
• The state argued the law aims to prevent mass shooters from gaining access to assault weapons.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• And mass shootings have led to states and cities seeking ways to regulate certain guns.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
• At least 119 bodies of civilians were buried in a mass grave on the church grounds while Russian forces occupied Bucha for weeks.
  — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Israeli demands for the mass evacuation of parts of Gaza have raised the specter of ethnic cleansing.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Laia Costa plays a modern-day woman in search of her great-grandfather in a mass grave.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
• Travelers left those hotels in a mass evacuation to avoid the flames.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
• In those years, the advent of the smartphone and the mass adoption of social media have turned those bicycles into runaway trains.
  — Royce Branning, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
• Maui Police Chief John Pelletier is no stranger to responding to mass tragedy.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• There is no relief, and then suddenly there’s disaster: The grid fails, snatching away the AC that’s staving off mass heat illness.
  — WIRED, 27 June 2023
• Experts say EVs need to be cheaper for mass market appeal, and charging presents a challenge.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• For more than 3,000 canines held in the region’s shelters, the mass evacuation to cities thousands of miles away may be their last chance to avoid being killed.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• The mass death of trees occurring through the formation of ghost forests places those benefits at risk and even damages local economies.
  — Ginger Zee, ABC News, 6 July 2023
• Some fidgeted in their seats when the mass killer, dressed in a navy blue prison uniform, entered the courtroom, his long, shaggy hair dropping to his shoulders.
  — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• Both of these circumstances would change the mass distribution of the planet, which can change its rotation.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
• Eighty percent of mass shooters are in a mental health crisis when something happens.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• Exhaustion and lack of resources for their work have factored into the mass exodus.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• The group’s firearms training is run by a former Air Force staff sergeant — who has expressed admiration for mass shooters.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• So too were many of the Native American converts who were forced into labor in the missions, but often in unmarked and even mass graves.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• That same month, Jones himself took aim at Musk as mass layoffs led to speculation about Twitter’s demise.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
• That includes a May event called Kissing Tartu, which will be an unprecedented mass joint kiss.
  — Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Despite the scrutiny and mass public interest surrounding them, Camilla, 76, and Charles, 75, continue to prove the depth of their connection on the throne today.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
• Days after the killings, McDonald made the unprecedented decision to criminally charge the parents for a mass school shooting committed by their child.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024