hecatomb

Example Sentences

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If I may say so, the great hecatomb of pigs you describe on farm has not taken place.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2021

But amid the ensuing hecatomb of the Tet Offensive four years later, LBJ announced he would not run for a second term.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2019

The French Revolution had resurrected the idea of democracy – and produced a hecatomb on a grand scale.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2018

The arrival of newlywed Criminologist Hatch and his bride in a sleepy Pennsylvania village precipitates a hecatomb.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Conon, after he had conquered the Lacedæmonians in the sea-fight off Cnidus, and fortified the Piræus, sacrificed a real hecatomb, which deserved the name, and feasted all the Athenians.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us