How to Use abattoir in a Sentence

abattoir

noun
  • As an abattoir of reason, the ad at least comports with the spirit of this bailout.
    — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • When a beloved cow stops being useful to the herd, it’s taken to the abattoir for slaughter.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The transition from abattoir to a lab that built life-saving robots seemed fitting.
    — Caroline Lester, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
  • This now frees him to channel federal dollars into that abattoir.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Nades worked as a cleaner at the local abattoir and volunteered for a charity.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
  • For the first time in 15 years — and sadly the only time since then — Mogadishu wasn’t an abattoir.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 13 May 2017
  • And the Trumps have being doing business in this financial abattoir for years.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 July 2017
  • Even the luckiest of gamblers sometimes loses—and even the greasiest of piglets sometimes ends up in the abattoir.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Even Nancy Meyers' happy kitchens are foodie abattoirs in their way.
    — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • Scotland’s biggest pig abattoir was forced to close because of shortages of the gas, which is used to stun the animals before slaughter.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 2 July 2018
  • Now that Congress has created one, the drug companies are squealing like pigs being led to the abattoir.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Making the most of their pig tissue from the local abattoir, Ahmed’s team also showed how the material could grip.
    — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The carcasses were processed in a large abattoir in the park, and the meat was canned and distributed in nearby black communities.
    — Adam Welz, The Atlantic, 7 June 2021
  • An abattoir has to be at least 3,000 feet from a long list of land uses including apartment properties.
    — Houston Chronicle, 29 Feb. 2020
  • To be fair, this is a problem built into the play, which like all of Shakespeare’s tragedies begins with astonishing rhetoric and ends as an abattoir.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • The cosmos, often portrayed as beautiful and beguiling, is here a ghoulish abattoir.
    — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 22 May 2017
  • That first scene describes, in graphic detail, the slaughter of a 700-pound pig in an abattoir in Gascony, France.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 25 July 2018
  • In 2014, when the sect claimed the area as the headquarters of its caliphate, fighters slaughtered hundreds of people in the public abattoir.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020
  • AgriProtein’s fly larvae were originally pampered with blood from abattoirs mixed with bran, while the adults were fed milk powder, molasses and sugar.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Few River Forest residents would be happy to know their neighbors were operating an abattoir in the back yard.
    — Paul Sassone, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
  • Trump is still sitting on a paper holding worth more than $2 billion, but his outside investors, many of whom are small investors who bought at or near the top, have been been taken to the abattoir.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Austrian farmers can butcher their own meat—their cows are calm and content right up until the end—but in Germany the animals must be transported to the abattoir.
    — Ann Abel, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • The abattoir in Baringo has been running for almost two years, slaughtering hundreds of donkeys a day to satisfy Chinese demand.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Frank Lee bucked free from the back of a delivery truck chauffeuring him to his doom at a small abattoir in Brooklyn in April 2016.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
  • In the evenings, people gather at bars such as Salhane, a former abattoir painted a hue of lemon-yellow that faces both sea and castle, to enjoy glasses of local wine or a few cocktails.
    — CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
  • An abattoir in the north of the country has halted slaughtering, and nearby schools were closed, after 650 meat processing workers tested positive.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 18 June 2020
  • Today’s slaughter seems even more out of place in the sprawling cities of a predominantly urban country, where the clean concrete floors of car washes turned impromptu abattoirs set the bloodshed in even starker relief.
    — Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2014
  • The study, published in the scientific journal Frontiers on Friday, looked at samples of rumen from Alpine cows in an abattoir in Austria.
    — Sara Spary, CNN, 2 July 2021
  • Meanwhile, a German abattoir last week voluntarily halted pork exports to China after workers were found to be infected.
    — Fortune, 22 June 2020
  • All four Kenyan abattoirs are now mandated to transform their donkey slaughterhouses within 60 days to handle cows, sheep and chickens, Munya said.
    — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020

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