7 sentences with 'carnage'

Example sentences and phrases with the word carnage and other words derived from it.

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« Never again in the war would a moment of voluntary peace re-emerge; though they did not know for certain at the time, the soldiers faced four more years of carnage to come. »
« Against this backdrop of continuing carnage, even the most stubborn commanders were forced to recognise that their dreams of a spectacular breakthrough were probably unattainable. »
« As American involvement grew, US orders of munitions and equipment from Japan revitalised the Japanese economy and, ironically, given the carnage of the Pacific theatre of World War II, began to forge a strong political alliance between the two former enemies. »
« Progressivism is the belief that through their powers of reason and observation, humans could make linear and unlimited progress over time; this belief was especially important in response to the carnage and turmoil of the English Civil Wars in the 17th century. »
« The Battle of Verdun, a huge German offensive that sought to break the stalemate in 1916, resulted in 540,000 casualties among the French and 430,000 among the Germans. It achieved nothing but carnage, with neither side gaining significant territorial concessions. »
« Much of the impetus behind not only the existentialists' current theories, but their popular reception, was the widespread desire for a better and more "authentic" social existence after the carnage of war. Appropriately, existentialism had its heyday from 1945 to about 1960. »
« Meanwhile, however, the war was becoming increasingly unpopular in America itself and in its allied countries. Over the years, journalists catalogued much of the horrific carnage unleashed by US forces, with jungles ravaged by chemical agents and napalm and, notoriously, civilians slaughtered. »

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