: in a body : as a whole
moved the inmates en masse to the new prison

Examples of en masse in a Sentence

Her supporters arrived en masse for the rally.
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And tuned in en masse, as Netflix themselves would tell you (with the league’s blessing). John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Stone and Flavin’s three daughters are all in their 20s now (Stallone has two older sons, one who died in 2012 of heart disease), and the sprawling home allows the entire Stallone clan (and more) to comfortably gather en masse for both special occasions and not-so-special occasions. Mark David, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025 Universities in China, Canada and Europe have moved to hire American academics en masse — signaling a potential brain drain. Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025 Not long ago such an utterance would have been political suicide in a country with a pacifist identity, but her rallies were packed, and party volunteers were out en masse, distributing flyers and buttonholing passersby. Jeff Kingston, Time, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for en masse

Word History

Etymology

French

First Known Use

1795, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of en masse was in 1795

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“En masse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/en%20masse. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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en masse

adverb
: in a body : as a whole

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