7 sentences with 'massacred'
Example sentences and phrases with the word massacred and other words derived from it.
• « Julius Caesar was both a ruthless fighter, who massacred entire villages and enslaved hundreds of thousands of Celts (killing or enslaving over a million people in the end), and a gifted writer who wrote his own accounts of his wars in excellent Latin prose. »
• « Not only was Constantinople impregnable to invaders, but its population of proud Romans repeatedly massacred barbarians trying to seize power, and deposed unpopular emperors who tried to rule as military tyrants rather than true emperors possessing sufficient Roman "virtue". »
• « The Bulgars destroyed the remaining Byzantine cities in the northern Balkans, massacred or enslaved the inhabitants and crushed the Byzantine armies. »
• « Meanwhile, a huge Catholic uprising took place in Ireland and thousands of Protestants were massacred. »
• « Men and women were massacred whether or not they had participated in the uprising, villages were burned to the ground, and the death toll easily exceeded 100,000 (some estimates put the figure much higher). »
• « The French massacred villagers suspected of collaborating with the guerrillas, but the massacres only turned more Spanish peasants against them. Napoleon sent hundreds of thousands of men into Spain in a vain attempt to turn the tide and pacify it; instead, he found his best troops trapped in a war that refused to play by his rules. »
• « In the Middle Ages, Jews were frequently persecuted, expelled or even massacred by the surrounding Christian majority. »