Sentence examples for was massacred from inspiring English sources
noun
The killing of a considerable number where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms.
- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
In 1857, a wagon train of migrant families heading to California was massacred in southwest Utah.
A population of soldiers from India was massacred; they were not just background.
He disobeyed his orders to organise an orderly retreat and was massacred along with the rest of his garrison.
It's been 50 years since Martin marched to Montgomery and Malcolm was massacred in Harlem: we don't need another Black History Month.
In 1190, the Jewish community of York was massacred and its property, including many books and manuscripts, was looted and sold abroad, where this volume was discovered.
Twice the entire population was massacred, and, after a rebellion in the seventeenth century, the city became so depopulated that the government resettled it with people from other provinces.
"I was privately sickened by my own ruthlessness and horrified that I was massacring families just as my own had been massacred," he observes.
Who is learning the lessons of the Srebrenica Massacre, where more than 8,000 Muslims were massacred, again amid the apathy of the world?
One of the worst atrocities committed by the Greeks was the massacre following the Siege of Tripolitsa in October 1821, where several thousands were massacred, many impaled and roasted.
Innocent people were massacred".
The British are massacred.
