butchered

Example Sentences

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Animal remains were also placed in the grave, including a butchered calf.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

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 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

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

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

“Man, those singer guys just bombed so hard. I mean, they utterly and totally butchered ‘Hotel California,”’ Ashish said, walking in with two bottles of water.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon