(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.
Mayhem
Definition:
(n.) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oddly, Wagner fails to tell us what happens to Alberich, who, despite being responsible for all the Tarantinoesque mayhem, is the only character left standing by the end.
(2) MPs said the group's decision to target some of the UK's most prominent Muslim communities was a blatant attempt to provoke mayhem and disorder.
(3) The home secretary, the chancellor, and perhaps even the foreign secretary may go, and Labour faces its worst defeat in its history on Thursday, but the prime minister does not recognise his direct responsibility for the mayhem.
(4) All that talk of “populism” looks like pussyfooting around now that Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon is stoking up apparently intentional mayhem .
(5) The current mayhem over lethal injections has led some prominent public figures to say that the US supreme court should consider imposing a new moratorium.
(6) He also issued a warning that anyone responsible for inciting post-election mayhem would be barred entry to the United States, where millions of Nigerians live.
(7) Most local media outlets joined the government in presenting the constitution's enactment as the only means of achieving stability following three years of economic hardship and political mayhem since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
(8) Like Rona Jaffe's novel of the 50s, The Best of Everything – a book that Rakoff loves and reread before she started work on My Salinger Year – it is concerned with what it feels like to move to the big city, to take on your first job, and to struggle to survive on a tiny salary when all the while your dreams are seemingly being snuffed out at every turn, and your love life is spiralling into muddle and mayhem.
(9) Non-governmental organisations reported scenes of mayhem at the port of Piraeus , where about 5,000 men, women and children amassed.
(10) Here is what Paulson sees coming: low double-digit inflation by 2012, killing the bond market, and restoring strength to equities and gold; US economic growth capped in 2011 and 2012; a weak US housing market; currency mayhem; and continued dollar weakness as Washington struggles to tackle its debt.
(11) The mayhem at the mosque was in many ways one of nightmarish deja-vu for many of those present.
(12) These are people who want to destroy our way of life by causing murder and mayhem on the streets of the UK.
(13) After being forced to apologise for the mayhem two weeks ago when fewer than 250 police were unable to marshal a crowd of more than 50,000, Scotland Yard sent almost four times as many officers onto the streets and quickly penned marchers into a section of streets.
(14) The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments.
(15) For Thomas Bradley, a barber in Ferguson, the mayhem in this Missouri town has given the expression a literal meaning.
(16) He accuses Cameron of being simplistic by suggesting that criminality and police errors alone can explain the mayhem.
(17) As Tyler and Odd Future member Hodgy Beats stormed the set for their television debut, they mugged for the cameras, jumped around the interview seating and caused delightful visual mayhem, with The Roots performing as their live backing band.
(18) It is shocking to discover that our government has embroiled British personnel in the targeting process that is creating this mayhem.
(19) And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.
(20) Tunis museum attack: 19 people killed after hostage drama at tourist site Read more Mounting mayhem in neighbouring Libya is part of the problem as hardline Islamist militants have managed to cross porous borders or have smuggled weapons to like-minded extremists such as Ansar al-Sharia, which has branches in Tunisia and elsewhere across the Maghreb region.