(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.
Rampage
Definition:
(v.) Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.
(v. i.) To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage.
Example Sentences:
(1) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(2) At least half of the perpetrators in 100 rampages studied by the New York Times were found to have signs of serious mental health issues, and it was reported last week that Adam Lanza's mother was in the process of having him committed when he embarked on the Newtown rampage.
(3) Armed with an assault rifle, he then allegedly headed into two poor villages in Kandahar province, the Taliban's heartland, and went on a murderous rampage in which six people were also injured.
(4) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
(5) The three-day rampage by 10 gunmen in 2008 killed 166 people.
(6) Quite rightly, the appearance of the rampaging hordes of women whom David Cameron has promoted has been criticised.
(7) One response to the Isla Vista rampage is a California law, AB 1014, that allows family members and law enforcement to petition a court to remove guns from the possession of someone who may be a risk to others.
(8) The Bournemouth defender Adam Smith rampaged down the right flank, crossing for the on-running Ritchie, who sent a flying header towards goal, only for his effort to be tipped over by Elliot.
(9) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
(10) "This is not about letting people go on the rampage.
(11) The result is a rampaging drug-fuelled and illicit economy on the wings that engenders criminality rather than deters it.
(12) Gangs in bandanas rampaged through the dollar stores, barbers, and takeaways of West Florissant Avenue.
(13) In July 2013, rampaging asylum seekers torched the centre, causing $60m worth of damage.
(14) The mob violence was followed the next day by retaliatory attacks by gangs of Middle Eastern youths who went on the rampage in the beachside suburb, smashing cars and beating up innocent passers-by.
(15) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(16) The wrecked "candy ravers" and rampaging fratboys of EDM cliche are barely present – aside from more visible breasts and muscles, it is close to any European festival audience out for a good time, perhaps even a bit savvier.
(17) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old delivery driver and father, was shot dead by police after killing 84 people, including 10 children and teenagers, and injuring scores more in a deadly Bastille Day rampage.
(18) But, in a gallery a few steps away, the courage and creativity of students whose biggest moment was wrecked by the fire that rampaged through Charles Rennie Mackintosh's great building last month makes for what must be the most moving of this summer's graduate exhibitions.
(19) The new TV advert featuring Barton is part of the Demand a Plan campaign that brings Mayors Against Illegal Guns together with the survivors of rampages and victims families to call for a concrete legislative plan to reduce the annual carnage.
(20) Yet it still felt vaguely surprising when Yaya Touré shrugged himself from his own fitful display – occasionally at his brutish best, just as often rather sluggish, and nothing like the player who rampaged in this arena as City all but claimed the title last April – to fizz in a riposte 12 minutes from time, but there was to be no relief at the end.