butchered

Example Sentences

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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

In 2024, Shasta County agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a 9-year-old girl and her family after sheriff’s deputies seized her goat so it could be butchered.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

"We have had individual sheep slaughtered and butchered to a very high standard at the side of the road."

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

The camera holds on a tight shot of a tomato being butchered by a dull kitchen knife, juice and seeds spilling out as the fruit splits down its sides.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2025

While we scurried to finish the house, and the cook butchered the turtles and plucked the pheasants, the hairdresser arrived to tend to Madam.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson