What's the difference between bloodbath and carnage?

Bloodbath


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We hate the police, hate the government, got no opportunities ... Manchester was like a bloodbath.
  • (2) Hamlet, the prototype of inaction, the man who thinks "too precisely on the event", and who, when he does act, unleashes a bloodbath.
  • (3) "And that bloodbath [will be] sponsored by the Marange diamond fields."
  • (4) The ensuing bloodbath left hundreds dead and a generation of amputees.
  • (5) He spoke repeatedly of the EU's policy of integration towards former Yugoslavia, the scene of bloodbaths just 20 years ago: "We have to keep in mind that not so many years ago people from this part of Europe killed each other in awful wars … We are only focusing on what we have achieved on this continent and what could happen if disintegration starts again."
  • (6) Within hours, they were themselves the victims of yet another bloodbath at the hands of police – the second massacre of Morsi supporters in three days and the fourth in the six weeks since the army ousted Morsi on 3 July.
  • (7) Human rights agencies have warned of an imminent bloodbath, with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) refusing to surrender.
  • (8) Sarah Wollaston MP (@sarahwollaston) #Boris was speaking the truth on proxy wars and it's time for all parties in the region to end the sectarian bloodbath December 8, 2016 Crispin Blunt, who chairs the foreign affairs committee, suggested Downing Street could have handled it better.
  • (9) It ended after officials withdrew , fearing a bloodbath.
  • (10) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Survivor of Bataclan attack: ‘it was a bloodbath’ He then swivelled and shot through a car drivers’ window.
  • (12) While none of this means the Spurs will be the last team standing after what promises to be an absolute bloodbath of a Western Conference playoffs, recent history says not to bet against them.
  • (13) He recalled how as a young man in Moscow in 1943 he heard Stalin claim the Nazis had carried out the Katyn bloodbath.
  • (14) The only fucking way this country’s ever going to get turned around is it will be a bloodbath,” Stein allegedly said.
  • (15) It was one of the more notorious of the 1994 bloodbath's massacres.
  • (16) He also noted the low level of civilian casualties, contrasting with the kind of bloodbaths Mexicans have become accustomed to in the drug wars.
  • (17) France called for UN action to stop the "bloodbath" in Syria, as the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon , warned world powers not to repeat the mistakes they made in Bosnia.
  • (18) One insider described the changes as a "bloodbath that will change Five forever".
  • (19) Three men accused of plotting a “bloodbath” of Somali immigrants in a small Kansas town in order to provoke a religious war appeared in court on Monday and were ordered to remain in custody.
  • (20) Just don’t say it’ll be like Jeb’s brother’s bloodbath.

Carnage


Definition:

  • (n.) Flesh of slain animals or men.
  • (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Koehler confirmed German media reports that the truck had apparently been slowed by an automatic braking system, bringing it to a standstill after 70 to 80 metres (230-260ft) and preventing worse carnage.
  • (2) An arms embargo should be imposed on Israel, the former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell has said , as he warned that the level of misery and carnage in Gaza was likely to poison the remaining goodwill in the region for generations.
  • (3) It was carnage,” said Marc Coupris, 57, a legal worker.
  • (4) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
  • (5) British MPs are deceiving themselves if they believe they do not bear some of the responsibility for the “terrible tragedy” unfolding in Syria, the former chancellor, George Osborne, said on Tuesday during an often anguished emergency debate in the House of Commons on the carnage being inflicted in eastern Aleppo.
  • (6) The president railed against a dystopian scene of “American carnage” , in which crime, poverty, post-industrial decline, drug addiction and economic inequality scarred the landscape.
  • (7) Eliot's poem – composed in the emotional carnage of the post-second world war period – was originally entitled (borrowing, shamelessly, from Dickens's Our Mutual Friend), He Do the Police in Different Voices.
  • (8) A mid the Syrian chaos of carnage, starvation and evacuation, there is a tiny glimmer of hope.
  • (9) The future is defined by the same old atavistic carnage as ever – which is, as Rosenbaum says, “an ingenious form of doublethink echoed in the very premise of a fantasy of the future beginning with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...” Star Wars cast feel the Force after watching new trailer Read more I don’t hate Star Wars – I love the puppetry, just for starters, and all those beautifully dirty, scum-caked robots.
  • (10) The heads of the World Health Organisation, Unicef, the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme and the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, urged political leaders to use their influence to solve the crisis and criticised what they described as "an insufficient sense of urgency among the governments and parties that could put a stop to the cruelty and carnage in Syria".
  • (11) It was "chaos and carnage" that occurred "on their watch", says Morrison.
  • (12) She said: “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but an opportunity for carnage.
  • (13) Judges, which included four members of the public and five theatre professionals who then make the final decisions, decided that Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage deserved best new comedy.
  • (14) "A clear violation of international law and standards has been carried out in Egypt in what can be described as no less than utter carnage."
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Erdoğan’s crackdown: ‘Free speech is being rebranded terrorism’ That effort was short-lived but bloody, with hundreds of lives lost and thousands wounded in the carnage.
  • (16) The foundation's decision to stand firm in the face of a nationwide wave of revulsion to last month's bloody events is all the more striking given that the organisation's headquarters are located in Newtown, just three miles from Sandy Hook school where the carnage occurred.
  • (17) Mwendo Mutalubeko lost five children in the carnage.
  • (18) But Britain's economy is unlikely to escape the carnage.
  • (19) The images coming in to the Guardian's picture desk have reflected the last few days' carnage in an even more graphic way than usual: dead and maimed children in bombed-out Gaza or bodies of victims lying in Ukrainian cornfields.
  • (20) He wrote: "If you don't change your gun laws to at least try to stop this relentless tidal wave of murderous carnage, then you don't have to worry about deporting me.