Sentence examples for were 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
Innocent people were massacred".
In both cases, civilians were massacred, and minorities suffered terribly.
Many were massacred, placed on reservations, or incorporated into government colonies.
About 90,000 Chams were massacred, and the survivors were dispersed in groups of families.
A report released this month by the Guatemala Truth Commission confirmed that entire communities were massacred.
That was before Rwanda, where 800,000 people were massacred as the world watched.
On Saturday about 50 guardsmen were massacred north-east of Baghdad.
On Friday, nearly 50 of my fellow Muslims were massacred in cold blood in New Zealand.
They were massacred because they demanded freedom and dignity, and rejected tyranny and corruption.
(In the days that followed, 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred at Srebrenica).
The refugees were massacred, but the former Hutu soldiers escaped to neighboring countries.
