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
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 camera holds on a tight shot of a tomato being butchered by a dull kitchen knife, juice and seeds spilling out as the fruit splits down its sides.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025
We’d never butchered eight head of cattle at one time, and we didn’t have the hanging space for them.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
