butchery

Example Sentences

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At the height of the sectarian butchery following the invasion, I and other photographers rushed to the scenes of suicide bombings, rocket strikes and shootings around Baghdad nearly every day, sometimes multiple times a day.

From Seattle Times

Under a microscope, Gaudzinski-Windheuser says, nearly every bone showed signs of butchery.

From Science Magazine

On Friday, a long line of Cubans waited outside an empty state-run butchery, waiting for a coveted item: a leg of pork to feed their families on New Year’s Eve.

From Seattle Times

When they got their first call from police, about 25 years ago, they had limited experience with butchery.

From Seattle Times

Prosecutor Kevin Dent KC described the way the bodies had been mutilated as a "a gruesome echo" of the two defendants' butchery work.

From BBC