How to Use butchery in a Sentence

butchery

noun
  • In truth, Hollingsworth says, no one knows who ordered the butchery.
    — Dave Kindy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • Still, the outcast lovers feast on human body parts, a butchery the film does not shy away from.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
  • When that kind of butchery is done by weapons purchased legally, clearly the laws need to change.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
  • Food will be a mixed lot — in-house butchery will yield cuts to be cooked on black rock and Himalayan salt blocks.
    — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The song lyrics feature sailors harpooning a whale and hoisting it to the ship for butchery.
    — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Many films, video games, comics and media cash in on the market for fantasy butchery.
    — WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Over the course of the weekend in Gazelle, guests receive hands-on lessons in butchery and open-fire grilling.
    — Matt Villano, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • The first floor was once used as a convenience store and butchery (the walk-in cooler has been preserved).
    — Christianna McCausland, baltimoresun.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • There’s not as big of a demand for butchery; people today would rather have their meat pre-sliced and packaged.
    — Clarissa Wei, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • These bones remain fully assembled, and only one deer shows faint traces of butchery.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
  • The genocide was a spasm of barely imaginable butchery and savagery.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 July 2024
  • Lady of the House chef Kate Williams describes the butchery at her restaurant.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2018
  • The chef there was European and taught me everything from butchery and carving to how to make soups, stocks, sauces.
    — Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities, 24 July 2019
  • The level of butchery linked the killings to a series of unsolved homicides that began eight years earlier.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • To create it, staff take advantage of the in-house whole animal butchery program to use any leftover trim and bits.
    — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Though the site may have once been a fruitful hunting ground, researchers found no stone tools or animal bones bearing the telltale marks of butchery.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
  • When employees of the butchery finally did wrestle the calf the ground, Badr Musaed, who works in the shop, cut its throat.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • The stall is the first commercial farming and butchery operation found in the southwest of Britain.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Sow is bringing the same energy seen in the halal BBQ world to halal butchery.
    — Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The bones were marked up and showed signs of butchery, which reveal that the humans who hunted this particular rhino probably ate it.
    — NBC News, 3 May 2018
  • The restaurant would incorporate a seafood market and butchery, Smith, who owns Atlas, said in an email.
    — Sarah Meehan, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2017
  • The new finds, reported in the journal Nature, include stone tools, bones with signs of butchery, and ostrich eggshell fragments.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Vespaio was one of the first restaurants in the region to engage in whole animal butchery and even kept its own herb garden on the property.
    — Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
  • What now passes for the law in Xaltianguis, a little town on the road to Acapulco, arrived with a car bomb and butchery.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2019
  • About 40 percent of the human bones found in the cave have bite marks on them, while 60 percent show some signs of butchery activities.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Coins, bracelets, cutting devices for manicures and butchery, projectiles.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Chavez, who went to butchery school, had a custom barbecue pit made for himself six years ago from what used to be a 250-gallon underground propane tank.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Grab a seat near Tullibee’s open kitchen to watch the staff hard at work on dishes inspired by an in-house butchery program and accented by pickling and fermenting.
    — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2026
  • The bones of two of the hippos show signs of butchery marks, including a cut on the ribs and four parallel marks on a shin bone; some of the antelope bones indicate scraping.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Cut & Culture is a hands-on culinary journey with an interactive butchery session guided by expert chefs.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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