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: the flesh of slain animals or humans
a multitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage—
T. B. Macaulay
T. B. Macaulay2
: great and usually bloody slaughter or injury (as in battle)
the carnage of war
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Examples of carnage in a Sentence
Reporters described the highway accident as a scene of carnage.
the appalling carnage in that war-torn country requires that the outside world intervene
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Or an overly cheery TikTok dancer, beaming directives toward the back of your skull: banish bad energy, embrace satisfaction, don’t look at the carnage that proves it’s unearned.
—Ashley Bardhan, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2024
The carnage remains among the deadliest episodes in America’s ongoing scourge of campus shootings.
—Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 27 June 2024
Without editorializing, Wilson never lets the reader forget that all of this carnage has a morally dubious pretext.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
But none of that could have prepared fans for the carnage to come in episode 5.
—EW.com, 26 June 2024
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Ashley Bardhan, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2024
The carnage remains among the deadliest episodes in America’s ongoing scourge of campus shootings.
—Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 27 June 2024
Without editorializing, Wilson never lets the reader forget that all of this carnage has a morally dubious pretext.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
But none of that could have prepared fans for the carnage to come in episode 5.
—EW.com, 26 June 2024
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“Carnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnage. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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