slaughter
Example Sentences
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A vivid memory for Sanchez is his grandfather slaughtering a pig and driving around South-Central on his pickup truck selling it.
From Los Angeles Times
Wolves have since recolonized the state — a development hailed by conservationists as an ecological win but derided by many ranchers whose cattle are slaughtered by the skilled pack hunters.
From Los Angeles Times
By 1913, Mrs Graham's father's farm would instead slaughter and rough-pluck the birds, putting them on trains in wicker crates to arrive in London a week later.
From BBC
Truckers, feedlot operators and cattle ranchers face hits to their bottom line without the Lexington facility, which slaughters up to 5,000 cattle a day.
The government's policy of slaughtering entire herds where a single animal has been infected has run up against bitter opposition from two of the three main farmers' unions.
From BBC
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