massacre

Example Sentences

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In 1768 King George III filled Boston with armed troops, creating a powder keg; in two years the spark of a single rifle shot would explode the Boston Massacre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Hoover’s last book with History Press, The Kelayres Massacre, was put out just a few months after Arcadia acquired the publisher.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2025

That changed in 1989 when, as a student in the prestigious Beijing University, he began taking part in the pro-democracy movement that was eventually crushed in the Tiananmen Massacre.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2025

On that day so long ago, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the Massacre River, my mother did fly.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat