butcher
Example Sentences
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Cignetti’s gotten a lot of attention for his bravado and his menacing sideline presence, in which he paces and stares like a customer who thinks the butcher’s hiding the best T-bones.
I was standing just outside Mr. Zenger’s butcher shop one hot morning, making sure to keep my body in the rectangle of shade his awning was providing, when I overheard some gossip.
From Literature
Martin began acting in the 1960s, having previously worked in factories and as a butcher at Smithfield Market in the City of London.
From BBC
They were penniless, so deep in debt that they were all but buried alive by it, only for the butcher to offer a hand, and a house, and food enough for them all.
From Literature
He studied at what is now known as the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, interned at Alps Salami in Queens and apprenticed with butchers in Tuscany.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
