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 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
"We have had individual sheep slaughtered and butchered to a very high standard at the side of the road."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
We never butchered or sold a hog that didn’t belong to us or marked a pig following a sow that didn’t wear our mark.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
