butchered

Example Sentences

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Animal remains were also placed in the grave, including a butchered calf.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The 1987 movie features Schwarzenegger’s Dutch leading a multiracial band of bros on a black ops mission to eliminate guerrillas in a Central American jungle, only to be butchered by an invisible stalker from space.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2025

"If we saw these marks on animal bones, we'd have no question that they were butchered," says Prof Schulting.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024

Sometimes Shorty wound up practically butchered, not from her long powder-pink fingernails, but from all that hardware.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols