butchering

Example Sentences

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Lingjing appears to have been a butchering site where Homo juluensis processed animals such as deer.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

The best of them, such as “Goodbye, It’s Over,” about the butchering of a pig, rail against the cheapness of life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Lots of folks are going to blame USC and coach Lincoln Riley for butchering a Knute Rockne-born tradition that accounted for 78 straight games, not counting 2020, the COVID-19 year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

The fleecing of Kevin, who ProPublica agreed to identify by first name only, was a textbook example of pig butchering.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025

Next, Torak washed the long back sinews he’d saved from the butchering, pounded them flat, then teased out the narrow fibers for thread: drying them and rubbing them in fat to make them supple.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver