CARNAGE in a Sentence

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For CARNAGE, below is one of 9 sentences:
Sweeping terrible down the tide of battle he wakens fierce indiscriminate carnage, and flings loose all the reins of wrath.

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 Meanings and Examples of CARNAGE
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carnage
 n.  destruction of life; savage and excessive killing of many people
Classic Sentence:
1  In short it was a continual carnage throughout the empire.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
2  The mass has not been said there since the carnage.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  From this denseness the carnage arose.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
4  We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
5  Thanks to him, everywhere present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
6  Sweeping terrible down the tide of battle he wakens fierce indiscriminate carnage, and flings loose all the reins of wrath.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
Example Sentence:
1  The film The Killing Fields vividly depicts the carnage wreaked by Pol Pot's followers in Cambodia.
2  The United Nations released figures that highlighted the carnage that has engulfed Syria for more than two years
3  The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage.