How to Use butcher in a Sentence

butcher

1 of 2 noun
  • Even the best butchers end up with scraps.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Our brisket comes in the same as a butcher would get it, untrimmed.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Then tie two more butcher’s knots in the center of each side.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the meat had been freshly cut for them by the butcher.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The butcher shop will grow, the partners said.
    — Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2026
  • The murder weapon, a butcher knife, was found at the scene.
    — Annalise Peterson, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Ask the butcher for lean cuts and choose meats with less marbling.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The blades of two butcher knives snapped off during the killing spree.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • If yours doesn't, use cotton twine (ask your butcher for some).
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
  • As for the food, the menu is built around the butcher shop, where diners choose their cut.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
  • They were beheaded and hanged from the meat hooks of butcher shops.
    — Time, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Many butchers will also shave meat for you on the slicer behind the counter.
    — Hana Asbrink, Bon Appétit, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Three ladders with upturned butcher knives for rungs led to the ground.
    — Kate Guadagnino, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Maher, 62, is the son of a butcher.
    — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • In front of the butcher’s near where the painter lives, a vendor, wizened and bent, sets up shop.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Seasoned butchers work while explaining what to look for in a good cut.
    — Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2025
  • They are sold in Asian markets and elsewhere; check with your butcher.
    — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • If unavailable, ask your butcher to thinly slice it for you.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Thank you for sending it to your friends, your coworkers, and your butcher.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • There were also about eight or nine bakeries and about 10 butcher shops.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • The restaurant’s core beef items reflect his mastery as a butcher.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Pete, meanwhile, was the son of a man who left both home and school at nine and became a butcher.
    — Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Her father joined with one of his brothers to run a butcher shop, where her mother pitched in part-time.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • During the search a man armed with a butcher knife appeared in front of a police cruiser.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • Her father worked as a butcher, and her mother studied to become a nurse.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • There was a firepit where people grilled handmade hot dogs the couple had bought at a local butcher.
    — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 6 Jan. 2023
  • There is brief discussion of poison, and at one point, a fearsome butcher holds a knife.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • The water in the butcher section handwashing sink did not get hot enough.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Videos on the butcher shop’s page allow customers to peek behind the curtain of the food process.
    — Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2025
  • This guy, for example, his nickname is butcher.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025

butcher

2 of 2 verb
  • The band has butchered my favorite song.
  • They've hired someone to butcher the hogs.
  • Many innocent people were butchered under his regime.
  • To work them to death no more a sin than to butcher a hog.
    — Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But even the short version of her name, Katya, has been butchered.
    — Marian Chia-Ming Liu, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Villagers pitched in to butcher the whales.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Reese tried that one, too, but butchered it when his lean came well into the end zone.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Bad books have been made into great movies, and many great books have been butchered on the screen.
    — Susan Orlean, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2025
  • To help meet that goal, Jensen plans to butcher some of his cows and sell the meat.
    — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
  • When a crew lands a whale, it's usually butchered on a nearby beach.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The same day, a friend sent him an article about pig-butchering schemes.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Many of the bones seem to bear the marks of butchering by tool-wielding hominins.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2018
  • There are instructions on how not to just cook a duck, but how to raise it and butcher it.
    — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
  • That is to say, more chickens are bred and butchered each year than there are alive at this very moment in time.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Another way to produce more cheap meat is to butcher the birds faster.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The Townsends grow most of their own vegetables and butcher their meat.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The deer must be completely butchered and de-boned before it can be brought into the state.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
  • This past May, the hunters shot and butchered all seventeen in a single day.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • My buddies hang skinned, whole deer in a walk-in cooler for up to two weeks before butchering.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Songs are butchered, with an inexcusable amount of bum notes and out-of-step harmonies.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • Bavette is known for its high-quality meats sourced from small producers and butchered in-house.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Heavy snow, extreme winds and rough seas kept the whales from being butchered in a timely fashion.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And so the buffalo were butchered and sold for their tongues and hides, and their bones were ground and used for fine china.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • On the first day, the family butchered the whale and divided the meat into two piles.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But there’s only one way to get good at butchering, and that’s to do a bunch of it each fall — and follow these tips.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Or perhaps the dissidents simply do not want to get butchered like the others.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2026
  • These animals were butchered and eaten, and their bones were used to make a variety of tools.
    — William Taylor, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Bastianich approved of the filet James had cut after butchering the fish.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Celtics called time, but failed to get a shot off, butchering two in-bounds plays in the final seconds.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • More often than not, however, my name gets butchered into a menagerie of gaffes and blunders.
    — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023

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