How to Use slaughter in a Sentence

slaughter

1 of 2 noun
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  • One day, the rangers hoped to raise crocodiles all the way to slaughter.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The task now is to stop the slaughter in Gaza, not enable it by sending more weapons.
    — William Hartung, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Their weapons would in effect be used for the slaughter of people in Ukraine.
    — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • This is achieved by feeding the cattle a large amount of grain before the slaughter.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The October 7 massacre was the largest slaughter of Jews since the holocaust.
    — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The slaughter of all our characters one by one—Maeve, Bernard, Stubbs, etc.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Its steak, that is—a rich slab of meat grown from stem cells, in a bioreactor, no cows or slaughter required.
    — Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • In India, the slaughter of cattle for meat is largely the preserve of Muslims, a fact that wasn’t lost on the viewers.
    — Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Despite the full-on sledging and slaughter on the field, the 22-year-old came in to blast a century at Perth as if this red ball game was all a bit of fun.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • An outbreak in mid-March at a single farm in Iowa forced the slaughter of 5.3 million chickens.
    — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Both grow small amounts of chicken cells into slabs of meat—no slaughter required.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
  • The con is called pig butchering — so named because victims are likened to hogs, fattened up for slaughter.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Some are sold to other ranchers for breeding or for slaughter.
    — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Their motive: to warn the world of the mass slaughter underway in a death camp whose existence was, at that time, barely known.
    — Jonathan Freedland, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This might explain why the slaughter of Daniel Shaver did not garner attention in the media.
    — Anthony Conwright, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
  • For now, the sheer horror felt by Israelis in the face of Hamas’ slaughter of civilians has left the idea of a two-state peace agreement more distant than ever.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Unlike cows, chickens, and pigs, very few fish are stunned before slaughter.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Live cattle refer to cows that have been fattened at feedlots to a suitable heft for slaughter.
    — WSJ, 1 June 2023
  • These, too, were running out, owing to slaughter and plunder.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Cow slaughter: Officials plan to shoot 150 cattle from the sky Thursday.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • One of the world’s largest outbreaks of bird flu, which led to the slaughter of millions of chickens to limit its spread, appears to be spilling over into mammals.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2023
  • But video from the scene of the slaughter shows the gunmen facing no significant resistance.
    — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
  • In the creation of all Aleph Farms products, no animal slaughter is involved.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
  • And the machine keeps going, feeding off the next generation of boys coming through, being sent to the slaughter.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The mom had been kept for breeding while her piglets were allegedly intended for slaughter.
    — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • We are treated to a straight fight between Quaritch’s men, who are on board a flying boat equipped for the slaughter of whales, and Jake’s oceanic troops, roused to fury from their love of peace.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • To alter cows’ diets on a large scale, the algae would need to be used on feedlots, where cows spend their final months before slaughter.
    — Brian Kateman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • While the slaughter unfolded, Manson returned to the car where Kasabian was waiting.
    — Elaine Woo Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 2 Mar. 2023
  • While some appeared to find humor in the bit, others were upset about the video and the way Ramsay appeared to taunt the animal headed for slaughter.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 31 July 2022
  • Now, questions abound over whether the slaughter at Michigan State on Monday evening could have been prevented.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
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slaughter

2 of 2 verb
  • Our team got slaughtered yesterday.
  • At the end of the war, two-thirds of those Jews have been slaughtered.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But think back to the 1,400 Israelis that were slaughtered.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Upholding the wrong call was the right call, but he still was slaughtered for it.
    — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • And the bottom line is that this gal didn’t do very well in the divorce–she got slaughtered.
    — Malina Saval, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
  • What happened to drive the girls to hunt down and slaughter one of their own is the heart of the series, after all.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Eli’s wife and two teenage daughters were slaughtered in front of him.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Yes, her parents were slaughtered right in front of her.
    — ABC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The mom had been kept alive for breeding, and most of her young had been taken and slaughtered.
    — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • So in the fall of 2025 there will be fewer cattle to slaughter and higher prices.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Whenever the disease is found the entire flock is slaughtered to help limit the spread of the virus.
    — Terry Chea, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • But before the animal was to be slaughtered, the young girl begged not to give up the goat that had become a beloved pet.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Often the sheep are slaughtered, salted and dried for laandi, a kind of jerky that sustains Afghans through the cold.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Lana and their son, Henry, were both slaughtered by David, in Henry's body.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 20 June 2023
  • The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death.
    — Marlon GonzÁlez, ajc, 21 June 2023
  • Smith was found 10 miles from the Murdaugh hunting estate, where the mother and son were slaughtered.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And the balance was coming from younglings… at least the ones Darth Vader didn't slaughter in the Jedi temple.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Cows that would normally have a calf in the next few years are instead going to slaughter.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Cows and pigs are slaughtered for meat and the two-acre garden provides 2,500 pounds of fruits, vegetables, and herbs each month.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Not only were hogs cheaper to raise than sheep, but the farmers could slaughter the hogs in the fall and let the meat cure throughout the cold winter months.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
  • July 25, for instance, is a good day to slaughter your livestock.
    — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The inability to see that and fatalism is what sets us up to be slaughtered the next time.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The family churned its own butter and made cheese, slaughtered its own hogs to make sausages, and turned the leftover lard into soap.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But those plants slaughter more than 25 million chickens and turkeys a day.
    — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
  • An even bigger quandary is how insects should be slaughtered.
    — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
  • An unknown criminal is on the loose, slaughtering rich men in a twisted game played to death.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The law, which will come into effect in 2027, will ban the breeding, slaughtering and selling dogs for their meat.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Instead a third party slaughtered him when he was returned by deputies.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • If one of the Hamas terrorists had been able to penetrate the perimeter, those people would have been slaughtered.
    — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Millions of chickens, turkeys and other birds were slaughtered this year because of the outbreak.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2024

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