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

"If we saw these marks on animal bones, we'd have no question that they were butchered," says Prof Schulting.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024

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