Thesaurus / butcher

butcher

How to use butcher in a sentence

A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.

A butcher's boy, running against a gentleman with his tray, made him exclaim, "The deuce take the tray!"

She's too old for beef, or the butcher would; and she makes out to get her livin' without botherin' nobody much.

For all his vaunted scorn of being a butcher at a price, now that he heard the price he seemed not half so scornful.

A butcher scalds a hog to make the hair come off more easily (Bell).

There is a bird called the butcher-bird,—a very savage bird,—that tries to kill us.

So, when school was over and he saw the butcher's dog, he marched undauntedly past the astonished animal.

Yeah, I carried an empty gun, afraid that if it were loaded I'd butcher somebody.

Certainly, if I have plenty of exercise, and no work, I feel 423 much better; but there is Biles the butcher!

She attended to all, friend and foe, with equal kindness, but scolded the Hessians for coming to America to butcher the people.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985