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: the flesh of slain animals or humans
a multitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage—
T. B. Macaulay
T. B. Macaulay2
: great and usually bloody slaughter or injury (as in battle)
the carnage of war
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Examples of carnage in a Sentence
Reporters described the highway accident as a scene of carnage.
the appalling carnage in that war-torn country requires that the outside world intervene
Recent Examples on the Web
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
Chronicling the carnage is celebrated war photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst), who built her career snapping photos of the war front overseas.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
Now to her ultimate dismay, the war zone has come to her home turf, and Lee confronts an existential dread over how her efforts to catalog the carnage overseas has failed to prevent America from following the same path.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
The tech layoff carnage continues IBM adds to the nearly 50,000 layoffs in the tech sector in just the first three months of 2024.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
Palestinian officials, eyewitnesses and doctors said Israeli troops fired on the crowd, leading to the carnage.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
The Arizona was the centerpiece of the carnage that morning.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
There should be no question that this governance carnage at Boeing is tragic for all involved.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
The meeting also comes days after two men criticized for their failures to challenge the Uvalde school shooter and rescue children and teachers trapped in the carnage won support from voters to continue as law enforcement leaders in the Texas community.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
Chronicling the carnage is celebrated war photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst), who built her career snapping photos of the war front overseas.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
Now to her ultimate dismay, the war zone has come to her home turf, and Lee confronts an existential dread over how her efforts to catalog the carnage overseas has failed to prevent America from following the same path.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
The tech layoff carnage continues IBM adds to the nearly 50,000 layoffs in the tech sector in just the first three months of 2024.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
Palestinian officials, eyewitnesses and doctors said Israeli troops fired on the crowd, leading to the carnage.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
The Arizona was the centerpiece of the carnage that morning.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
There should be no question that this governance carnage at Boeing is tragic for all involved.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
The meeting also comes days after two men criticized for their failures to challenge the Uvalde school shooter and rescue children and teachers trapped in the carnage won support from voters to continue as law enforcement leaders in the Texas community.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
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“Carnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnage. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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