1
: 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
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
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Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
Rather the answer, according to Obama’s wordsmith, is to take cell phones away from American children who are seeing this carnage on social media and who are rightly horrified.
—Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
The 27-year-old suburban Philadelphia native remembers only hearing second-hand accounts of the carnage around him.
—CBS News, 17 Dec. 2025
The 2025 season will be remembered for the carnage.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 14 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for carnage
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“Carnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnage. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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