Sentence examples for had been carnage from inspiring English sources

Asked what his nickname had been as a child in Canada, a startled Carney said it had been "carnage", an admission that will undoubtedly come back to haunt him should the economy go awry under his stewardship.

While many executives have been with Murdoch for decades, there has been carnage near the top of the company.

It's just as well they didn't stay in the competition – it would have been carnage.

The result, eight years on, has been carnage, with a tally of around a hundred thousand dead, and at least twenty thousand missing.

Grabbing the gunman in a chokehold and battering him unconscious, they averted what could have been carnage in the packed carriages.

Mr. Phillips, who was shot twice in the back 23 years ago as he finished a service, said there could have been carnage at his Ward Chapel Church in Little Rock if someone else had been armed when he was attacked by a parishioner's relative for a still-unknown reason.

It has been carnage in that space.

It would have been carnage," he wrote, according to one translation of the letter.

And already there had been some carnage left in the storm's wake.

There had been a terrible carnage.

Human Rights Watch had been documenting the carnage but had struggled to generate government action.