How to Use mass grave in a Sentence

mass grave

noun
  • Stalin quickly executed unreliable cadres, and Pol Pot sent them to mass graves.
    — Andrew Mertha, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Investigators worked with researchers, historians, journalists and witnesses to piece together the location of the mass graves.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The South Vietnamese government collected the bodies of communist fighters and civilians and buried them in mass graves during and after the fighting, according to Vietnamese government news.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung attended the memorial services at Le Thi Rieng Park, where the remains were recovered from mass graves after over three months of excavations.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Vietnam buried the remains of 731 people believed killed during the 1968 Tet Offensive, after excavations uncovered mass graves at a Ho Chi Minh City park.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

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