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Sentence Examples Thus it is not generally known that several thousand citizens have been massacred along the northern rim of the country the past 17 years. In the later stages of the campaign, we know the citizens of these villages were killed and massacred and buried in mass graves. In the weeks that followed, more than twelve hundred people were massacred and thousands of women were beaten and raped. Thousands were massacred by white settlers or evicted from their ancestral lands. In 81 overs the Nalandians massacred the Royal bowlers to post a massive 315 for six wickets when stumps were drawn. When, early in 1887, a force of 500 Italian soldiers was massacred in Africa, there was a national outcry and demands for strong government. In 1890 a Ghost Dance uprising in South Dakota culminated at Wounded Knee, when US troops massacred some 200 Teton Sioux. He had already taken Cologne, where he was reputed to have massacred 11,000 virgins. After taking some time to play himself in, he simply massacred the bowlers and England were put to the sword. I think it appropriate to note that the song was not written by Joan, especially since there are people who feel that Joan massacred the song. On entering the town the Mongols plundered the town and massacred its citizens. She cut down the servants at the tables, and massacred all in the house of Akhat. Sure enough, the soldiers went in, they were captured, they were butchered, they were massacred. For every dumb teenager you see massacred, take two shots, and have a happy Halloween. It was once a speakeasy and just before prohibition was repealed a bunch of boozers were massacred by cops during a raid. The legend goes that the Portuguese massacred about 8,000 Sindhis without a single casualty, and carried off one of the richest booties in Asia. Then criminal responsibility would in fact be much clearer than it would be if soldiers had massacred civilians in violation of orders. The orchestra didn't help matters and massacred the song completely and turned the guitar solo into a joke. Fifty thousand devotees praying to the lingam and weeping passionately with hands clasped around their necks were massacred in cold blood. In retaliation to killings of northerners in the South, the military rulers massacred thousands of southerners and many were brutally tortured. Show More Sentences In one blood-drenched revolt in 1825, tribespeople massacred 8,000 Chinese soldiers, prompting a harsh response from the central government. During the 1994 genocide, extremist Hutus massacred minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus. In the days and nights that followed, thousands of people were massacred. Shots of the desert are breathtaking, while the battle scenes are also wonderfully portrayed, depicting the stark isolation the soldiers faced being massacred. After being given traditional Highland hospitality the soldiers turned on and massacred some 40 of their hosts, and many of those who escaped soon died in winter storms. But it also saw a continuation of nationalist wars in which hundreds of thousands of people were wantonly massacred in just about every corner of the globe. Days pass, thousands more are massacred, and we go on with our lives. They knew him, and they hated him as his soldiers massacred their people. Teams as talented as Penn State only get massacred on a regular basis if they quit playing hard, and they only quit playing hard if they no longer fear their coach. Yesterday, however, the triple Olympic champion turned up at the start of the women's time-trial and massacred the opposition to retain the second of her titles. Its leaders were put in jail and many of its members in the countryside were massacred. When the Miao were eventually defeated in 1872, however, countless numbers of them were massacred. The Omayyad dynasty of caliphs ruled from Damascus until 750, when Shiite Muslims, who descended from the caliph Ali, massacred the Omayyad family. He was the only painter of the Impressionist group to record the destruction of the Commune, and was outraged by the ruthless way in which the Communards were massacred. Any sign of the poor massacred deads disappeared, buried under the concrete of the difficulties of everyday survival. The tragic month of July 1995, when Serb troops led by Ratko Mladi? massacred over 8 000 Bosniaks, still lives in all our hearts. Help our children who are being massacred. Help our kind father who is being done to death! In 1857, a wagon train of migrant families heading to California was massacred in southwest Utah. Africans had seen too many military coups, too many wars within and between countries, and too many people massacred, killed, maimed, displaced and turned into refugees. Well, the civilian population over there is being massacred and MONUC has not budged. Show More Sentences On December 28th he attempted to march from Tampa to Fort King, but his command was ambuscaded and one hundred and fifteen officers and men massacred. In 1890 French foreign legionnaires massacred the amazonian army of Dahomey, one of west Africa's great kingdoms. Poles and other Slavs, Soviet prisoners of war, and mentally or physically handicapped people were likewise massacred in cold blood. Several other candidates hail from the rival Mangudadatu clan, whose womenfolk were among those massacred in November. Before the 1983 State Assembly elections in Assam, they massacred a large number of Assamese who also retaliated. Actually, it's been about two-and-a-half years since they massacred the song at the Isle of Wight festival, which everyone would probably like to forget. Algerian Muslims were regularly massacred by Islamist and other unknown forces. To think that the police arrested them and then they were massacred, that would just be too much. If his friends were massacred, he said, the students will feel obliged to step up action to demand justice. In May 2005 the government massacred protesters in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijan, prompting a break in ties with the west. It will now continue to haunt all of you who have literally massacred international law here. We will not stand by, particularly as Ontario gets massacred in the number of jobs that are pouring out of Ontario and out of Canada. Other inhabitants who did not succeed in fleeing were often massacred on the spot. Those who could not escape by walking through the high mountains were massacred by the hands of mercenaries. Now they've taken yet another show I grew up with and massacred it. To praise the emperor who burned the Confucian books and buried Confucian scholars alive was the equivalent in China of praising King Herod who massacred the innocents. Marauding dogs massacred ewes in lamb in Aramoho at the weekend. The Greeks held the pass but eventually a traitorous Greek led a Persian force through the hills to the rear of the Greek forces, who were subsequently massacred. Even the Native Americans, who were massacred almost to the point of extinction, escaped the curse of race slavery. When civilians are massacred, Human Rights Watch sends in the E-Team to document the war crimes. Show More Sentences More than 700 people were massacred by the rebels in less than one month. George Washington massacred Native Americans. It has also massacred French in its official communications. The men of military age were massacred and the women and children sold into slavery. The Buryats fought against Russian invasion since the 1620s and thousands of Buryats were massacred. Another news article talked about a family that was massacred. Later, when Buenos Aires was sacked by Indians and its inhabitants massacred, the descendants of these Spanish horses were abandoned to wander over the desolated country. Among the wounded was a nine-month-old baby, sole survivor of a busload of civilians headed from Qui Nhon to Pleiku who had been massacred by the Viet Cong at the ambush site. Mea culpa for you who during the genocide massacred innocent people, their only crime being their ethnic group, on the pretext of keeping you in power. I thought back and remembered the decades of perpetual fighting, remembered those dark soulless eyes, unblinking and unrelenting, as they massacred my friends and my family for no better reason than a desire for domination. Despite the peace agreements signed in August, 2000 and the swearing-in of a new government agreed upon in the November, 2001 accords, the civil war drags on and people continue to be massacred and pillaged. We welcomed him as a friend, just as we empathised with the victims of the fundamentalist regime in Algeria and the other countries where citizens, politicians and journalists have been massacred, even including Spain. For example, Marc Lepine massacred female engineering students at the University of Montreal, deliberately seeking out women whom he saw as taking over male occupations and roles. First, some people talk to Jesus about a group of Galileans massacred by Pilate. Hundreds of Armenians were massacred in Trans-Caucasia. Denied reinforcements, he and his small band of troops had to stand by in horror as an estimated 800,000 men, women and children were bloodily massacred. In 1809 he divided and outmaneuvered the ʿulamāʾ, and in 1811 he lured many of the Mamlūk leaders to a celebration at the citadel, where he had them massacred. No sooner had they reached the beach than they were massacred in just a few moments by approximately 300 Amerindians surging from the woods, under the horrified gaze of their companions who had remained on board the ships. Two dozen Dinka officials were massacred by White Army men, along with two Indian UN peacekeepers, on December 19th in Akobo, a remote outpost in Jonglei state. My delegation wonders: Who is stopping the violation of the most fundamental rights of these thousands of civilians, children and women who are being massacred? Show More Sentences In August 1998, when the Taliban took Mazar-e-Sharif, Northern Alliance fighters as well as ordinary citizens opposed to the Taliban were massacred. They have totally massacred Canada's reputation on the world scene in the last two years by refusing to live up to our international commitments or to stand up for Canadian interests. Guatemalans are defending their right to historic memory and are trying to bring dignity and justice to those who have seen their family members massacred. China had been one of the principal victims of Japanese aggression: the Japanese army had massacred over 10 million Chinese, 300,000 of them in the city of Nanjing alone. The Spanish fled for the Tlaxcaltec during the Noche Triste, where they managed a narrow escape while their backguard was massacred. His Gothic troops massacred the Hun contingent in their sleep, and then withdrew towards the cities in which their families were billeted. In 1418 Paris was taken by the Burgundians, who massacred the Count of Armagnac and about 2,500 of his followers. The people who were massacred were, in fact, the families of Sorley Boy MacDonnell's followers. At the Siege of Drogheda in September 1649, Cromwell's troops massacred the people after the town's capture. The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 led by An Gof and Thomas Flamank ended in a march to Blackheath in London where the Cornish forces were massacred. On 25 August 1898, a Turkish mob massacred hundreds of Cretan Greeks, the British Consul and 17 British soldiers. After having set fire to the village and having massacred the population, he was obliged to beat a retreat under the powerful walls of the abbey. On 17 November 1997, 62 people, mostly tourists, were massacred near Luxor. A short distance from their camp, the Roman troops were ambushed by the Eburones and massacred. Around 1395 Timur's army invaded Northern Caucasus and massacred much of the Alanian population. The Teutones were routed and massacred and their king, Teutobod, was placed in Roman chains. In the course of the night, 6000 of the Verbigeni fled from the camp out of fear of being massacred once they were defenceless. An attempt to retake Malta ended disastrously, however, when the local population sided with the Arabs and massacred the Byzantine garrison. There were 250,000 Mongols in Southern China and many Mongols were massacred by the rebel army. In 794, the Berber garrison of Tarragona massacred the inhabitants of the city. Show More Sentences The two men then forgot their differences and joined forces to seek revenge on the people of Turbaco, who were massacred to a man. Catching the exhausted defenders sleeping, they massacred 6,000 men, women and children. By 17 September, almost 25,000 Protestants had been massacred in Paris alone. Kazan finally fell on 2 October, its fortifications were razed, and much of the population massacred. Some 300 Moriori men, women and children were massacred and the remaining 1,200 to 1,300 survivors were enslaved. Likewise, the inhabitants of conquered cities were frequently massacred during the Crusades against the Muslims in the 11th and 12th centuries. In 1982, Assad pere massacred 20,000 of his own people in Hama. Tragically, during the hardest-fought period in the French campaign, up to 3,000 of these Tirailleurs Senegalais prisoners were evidently massacred by German soldiers. Her husband is said to have been a key player who helped to radicalise the Kouachi brothers, who massacred 12 people and plunged France into terror for three days. Another notable atrocity was carried out by General Neill who massacred thousands of Indian mutineers and Indian civilians suspected of supporting the rebellion. His forces murdered False Dimitri soon after his marriage in the Moscow Kremlin, together with many of his supporters, who were brutally massacred. In 1579, Ndongo ruler Ngola Kiluanje kia Ndamdi massacred Portuguese and Kongolese residents in the Ndongo capital Kabasa under the influence of Portuguese renegades. In 1282, the Sicilians rose up against the second dynasty of the Angevins on the Sicilian Vespers and massacred the garrison soldiers throughout the island. This angered Hulagu, and, consistent with Mongol strategy of discouraging resistance, he besieged Baghdad, sacked the city and massacred many of the inhabitants. Many of the VRS soldiers that liberated Srebrenica in 1995 had their family members massacred by armed groups that staged attacks out of Srebrenica. In 400, the citizens of Constantinople revolted against Gainas and massacred as many of his people, soldiers and their families, as they could catch. As the Britons' losses increased, the Britons tried to retreat, but their flight was blocked by the ring of wagons and the Britons were massacred. The 62-page report is an indictment of the state's failure to protect Shias from being massacred by the Laskhar-e-Jhangvi, a banned militant group. Fearing rebellion, Julian lured the Goths into the confines of urban streets from which they could not escape and massacred soldiers and civilians alike. After the capture of Baghdad, 20,000 of its citizens were massacred. Examples from Classical Literature At Tamvot 250 Armenians were massacred and the women carried into captivity. All the clansmen and servants in the same house are massacred, all save one, an old domestic and a sennachie. Could it be expected of the dragoons that they should tamely suffer themselves to be massacred? And when ye meet those who misbelieve, then strike off heads until ye have massacred them, and bind fast the bonds! In the swamps of Niort six hundred children of Nantes were rounded up, massacred, and atrociously mutilated. All those fighting citizens went out to battle and they have been massacred. Some were burned in their chateaux, or massacred in the streets. To add to their gratifications, an old man offered to conduct them to the spot where Captain Cook was massacred. August 5, 1695, fourteen inhabitants of Tewksbury were massacred. Under Boadicea, the Iceni burnt the town and massacred the colonists. These they inhumanly massacred, and burnt their dwellings to the ground. Fifteen thousand Bulgarians were massacred in Plovdiv alone. All this contributed to exasperate the inhabitants, and reduced us often to the point of being massacred. The bitterest thought of all was that there were folks asleep in dry, upholstered cabins who would never learn that they had massacred a boat before breakfast. He then razed the castle to the ground, massacred the family and moved on. Find more words! 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