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

The site's characteristics align with several others in central Italy where butchered elephant remains appear alongside small stone tools and modified bones.

From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 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

I thought of all my friends who had their name butchered as children and even adults — “Joe-zay,” “Josie” or pronounced correctly but in an exaggerated tone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

Right there in the wood, we kindled a fire and butchered the boar.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz