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
She says she has been left with a massive scar which has left her feeling "butchered".
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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
Thirty yards from shore, three black swans were gliding over the water, so serene ... no one had told them that war had come, and they cared nothing for burning towns and butchered men.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
