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How to use hecatomb in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hecatomb? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath.
In reaction to this judicial hecatomb, opposition to killing by the state has also grown.
We might be tempted to question the legacy of such a hecatomb, followed 21 years later by the Second World War.
The desire to limit substantially the hecatomb among laboratory animals is serving to shed the spotlight on progress in in vitro tests.
Half a century ago the need to construct peace was patently obvious to those who had witnessed the hecatomb of the Second World War.
It is, without any doubt, the main cause of the hecatomb which was going to follow within the next 6 to 7 minutes.
Luxembourg's Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the European Union is beginning in a context made fragile by the hecatomb caused by the Asian tsunami.
In this hecatomb along the minor rivers of Flanders and Picardy, the British peoplelost the cream of their working class and the flower of their aristocracy.
What are the stories behind this hecatomb?
In Conquest's opinion, the visceral reaction to Nazism entails a verdict that it was morally worse than Stalinism, even if its eventual hecatomb was a less colossal one.
Examples from Classical Literature
They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it.
Make a hecatomb of the present Hamleys all at once, while you are about it.
I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow.
Then Cinna, who not long before would have laughed at faith in Hecate, sacrificed a hecatomb to her.
Pile up, high as heaven, your hecatomb of victims, offered to the God of love.
He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god.
The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses.
Consumption had swept a hecatomb of victims from the family.
Before falling, I should make a hecatomb of my cowardly assassins.
They were almost innumerable, and seemed to have been a vast hecatomb offered up in thanksgiving to the Great Spirit for some signal success in the chase.
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