slaughterer

Example Sentences

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Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2023

Jordan Monkarsh is the son of a Jewish butcher, who fled Poland in the 1930s — and who himself was the son of a ritual slaughterer in the old country.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2019

“They go from being a slaughterer of mice to a couch potato,” says Eva Maria-Geigl, an evolutionary geneticist who oversaw the study with molecular biologist Thierry Grange, both at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris. 

From Science Magazine • Jun. 19, 2017

In a play-through shown onstage we see the bald slaughterer sporting not only a beard, but a young son, who he’s trying to teach how to hunt deer.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2016

No. The mercenary slaughterer will reject that fair hand at last, unless it comes to him weighted with a money-bag.

From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Trollope, Anthony