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
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
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
For the first time since Mr. Grote butchered my hair months ago, I look almost pretty.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
