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Example sentences for "massacre"

Lexicographically close words:
masquerades; masquerading; masquers; masques; mass; massacred; massacree; massacres; massacring; massage
  1. Eventually the vanity of this chief (Luis, or “Luys de Saric”) led to a revolt on the part of the Pima tribe with the massacre of Padres Tello and Rohen at Caborca.

  2. For undoubtedly massacre had been prevented.

  3. But when the Ojibway called down so urgently from the summit of the tower, he had risked disobedience, hoping to prevent the massacre which he knew to be afoot.

  4. He had known Whoa for many years, and had fought with him when the Kas-Kai-Ya massacre was avenged.

  5. I was raiding in Mexico at the time, for I have raided Mexicans at every opportunity since the massacre at Kas-Kai-Ya," Geronimo said.

  6. But the hoped-for massacre did not come about.

  7. Next followed his happy days with Alope, but not the massacre at Kas-Kai-Ya.

  8. At the time when the massacre must have occurred, the people of Kas-Kai-Ya had set up a deafening racket.

  9. But for every Mimbreno who had been slaughtered in the massacre of Kas-Kai-Ya, and for every warrior who had died before Arispe, two rurales lay dead on the field of battle.

  10. He kept his promises, and he would not massacre prisoners.

  11. As I listened I knew that, if no other Chiricahua would follow you to Mexico and help avenge the massacre of your people, Naiche would.

  12. Following the massacre of Kas-Kai-Ya, he had taken the training which he needed in order to become an Apache medicine man.

  13. What act so malignant, bloody, ghastly, and fiendish as the sacking, burning, and massacre at Lawrence!

  14. In half an hour we should have hundreds of howling savages about us in the jungle, and probably a general massacre would ensue.

  15. No intelligent European foreigner entertained any doubt as to the result of the coming contest, but the general fear (which happily proved to be unfounded) was that it would be followed by an indiscriminate massacre of the Spaniards.

  16. Massacre of foreigners in Manila and Cavite (Oct.

  17. Sámar on account of the massacre of American troops during the war, became a pulaján recruiting station.

  18. On his way from Manila to Los Baños the traveller will pass (on the left bank of the Pasig River) the ruins of Guadalupe Church, which mark the site of a great massacre of Chinese during their revolt in 1603 (vide p.

  19. It was the year of the memorable massacre of Fort William Henry.

  20. Turning to the British General, Proctor, he asked why such a massacre had been permitted.

  21. Dick war nowhere to be seen; the man said that he had caught a fresh horse, which had broken its rope and stampeded through the gate while the massacre was going on, and that he had ridden away on it on the Indian trail.

  22. The express riders reported that the Indians were out in large numbers, and that many attacks had been made upon parties of emigrants, sometimes successfully, and involving the massacre of every soul in them.

  23. The remaining Scythians, who were not at this feast, having heard of the massacre of their countrymen, fled into Lydia to king Halyattes, who received them with great humanity.

  24. Their chiefs, now no longer able to resist the complaints and cries of the multitude, who threatened to massacre them if they did not surrender, went themselves to Hamilcar, after having obtained a safe conduct from him.

  25. Attack on President Young When Judge Cradlebaugh organized his court at Provo, he expressed his determination to investigate the Mountain Meadows massacre and other crimes.

  26. It was the massacre at Mountain Meadows of a company of emigrants who were journeying to southern California.

  27. Some of them remained, willingly or by coercion, to participate in the massacre which followed.

  28. The massacre was in revenge for the killing of one Indian and the wounding of two others, by a company of emigrants on their way to California.

  29. The Haun's Mill Massacre There were a great many petty officers, and some sectarian priests, who could descend to any level.

  30. He denounced the crime as on a par with the killing of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the Haun's Mill massacre and the tragedy at Mountain Meadows.

  31. How the Massacre Occurred About the time the news arrived in Salt Lake City of the coming of an army, there was passing through the city under command of Captain Fancher, a company of emigrants from Arkansas and Missouri.

  32. Gathering of the Mob-Militia The same day of the massacre at Haun's Mill, General Samuel D.

  33. The word Massacre has resounded through the land, striking terror into strong as well as tender hearts, and awakening indignation against whatever may seem to threaten such a consummation.

  34. Think of the horrible massacre known by the name of the "Sicilian Vespers.

  35. If the massacre called the Sicilian Vespers had been infernal, it would have been going on now!

  36. Do they sit pondering, when the massacre is over, and think it but a bungling way of bringing their accounts right?

  37. Indian Bill, the rheumatic old native trapper whose family had perished at the massacre of the Yosemite some years before, and who ever since had lived in a little cabin on the edge of the Gulch, said it was the biggest in two hundred moons.

  38. It was the fourth day and Job was trying to persuade Bill to tell him about the dreadful massacre of the Yosemite in the years gone by.

  39. They fled before the expeditions like scared wild beasts, only to turn and mercilessly massacre every man when a chance was offered for ambush or surprise.

  40. The first move was to have been the massacre of the principal Hollanders, but the plot was discovered and the conspirators fled for their lives to the interior.

  41. He seems to have disliked the proposed marriage between the English queen and Francis, duke of Anjou, and his distrust of the Roman Catholics and the French was increased by the massacre of St Bartholomew.

  42. How terrible is the irony when we recall how this same ruler, after whom Coligny named his land of refuge for persecuted Protestants, was author of the most malignant religious massacre on record--the Massacre of St. Bartholomew!

  43. The Boston Massacre stirred the country from New Hampshire to Georgia.

  44. The year following the Boston Massacre some citizens of North Carolina, goaded by the conduct of the royal governor, openly resisted his authority.

  45. The incident of the massacre of the Protestant Vaudois at this time decided Cromwell's policy in favour of France.

  46. After a long debate, it was determined, not to massacre the Christian army, but to take sureties from them that Ceuta should be restored with all the Moorish captives in the Prince's hands.

  47. Even after this, a plot was laid to massacre the "Christian dogs" as they passed through the streets of Tangier, on their free passage to the harbour which the treaty secured them.

  48. At this the mob rose in fury and only Henry was able to prevent a massacre and a war that would have stopped the expansion of Portugal abroad for many a day.

  49. This massacre was attended with all the circumstances of savage warfare.

  50. I know that other chief men were not at the bottom of that affair, and they did not take so prominent a part in the massacre as the younger men.

  51. Be it remembered that the massacre at "Bloody Point" was not the only act of savage ferocity committed by the Modocs.

  52. No page in all the bloody history of Indian cruelties exceeds that of the massacre of emigrants at Bloody Point, by the Modocs, in September, 1852.

  53. He was not in the "Ben Wright" affair, although he was near when the massacre occurred.

  54. The Shah was on her way to England when, upon arriving at Saint Helena, the news of the massacre at Isandhlwana reached her.

  55. Missionaries and their families and native Christians took refuge in the legations, and rescue parties were sent out to bring in others, and these reported the most terrible scenes of massacre and indescribable cruelty.

  56. In July rumours came of the fall of the legation, and the massacre of all the Europeans.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "massacre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    annihilate; assault; attack; battering; butcher; carnage; decimate; destruction; exterminate; genocide; holocaust; kill; killing; looting; maim; massacre; murder; onslaught; pillaging; rape; removal; remove; riot; rioting; rout; sacking; slaughter; unruliness