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mass graves

n. (mass grave English)

Usage examples of "mass graves".

The Vietnamese had a strong prohibition against mass graves, and the holes must have taken hours to dig with the two shovels.

Peacekeepers in Kosovo told of women and children clawing their way free from previously unknown mass graves.

Most of the Wendish nobles had been hauled off the field last night, and now the common soldiers were being carted off to mass graves.

Treblinka was industrialized murder--mass graves full of Tosevites shot in the head, trucks designed so the waste products of their inefficient, dirty engines were vented into a sealed compartment to kill those inside, and, just installed before the Race seized Treblinka, chambers to slaughter large numbers of Big Uglies at once with poisonous gas.

The burial detail had spent the previous two days digging mass graves, and the majority of the Venesects were now decomposing under mounds of earth.

The hills were not natural: they were mass graves, scores of them, from the misguided slaughter of the city's residents by the T'lan Imass in Kellanved's time.