How to Use slaughter in a Sentence

slaughter

1 of 2 noun
  • One day, the rangers hoped to raise crocodiles all the way to slaughter.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Male survivors of the slaughter over age 25 had their right foot cut off.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • This is achieved by feeding the cattle a large amount of grain before the slaughter.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Their weapons would in effect be used for the slaughter of people in Ukraine.
    — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Some are sold to other ranchers for breeding or for slaughter.
    — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Both grow small amounts of chicken cells into slabs of meat—no slaughter required.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
  • But a slaughter of all the men, without distinction among them?
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • The task now is to stop the slaughter in Gaza, not enable it by sending more weapons.
    — William Hartung, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Unlike cows, chickens, and pigs, very few fish are stunned before slaughter.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2023
  • These, too, were running out, owing to slaughter and plunder.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Its steak, that is—a rich slab of meat grown from stem cells, in a bioreactor, no cows or slaughter required.
    — Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Cattle and hog slaughter numbers come out daily.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • This slaughter must end, this occupation must end.
    — Jack Sheehan september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The con is called pig butchering — so named because victims are likened to hogs, fattened up for slaughter.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Back then, the sector focused on drugs that helped cattle and swine survive long enough to make slaughter weight.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • The slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But Serkis prefers his Trojan horse without the slaughter.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Live cattle refer to cows that have been fattened at feedlots to a suitable heft for slaughter.
    — WSJ, 1 June 2023
  • The mom had been kept for breeding while her piglets were allegedly intended for slaughter.
    — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • There’s enough poetic irony there to land the billionaire slaughter in the middle of the list.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Economists track slaughter figures to help track middle-men in the meat market.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Sows looking up from crates, chickens unable to walk, pigs still conscious hanging from slaughter lines.
    — Meimei Fox, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The slaughter of all our characters one by one—Maeve, Bernard, Stubbs, etc.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Those attacking us want to silence criticism of a mass slaughter.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Here’s The Denver Post’s stock report from the slaughter.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
  • His parents wanted to make sure that he and his older brother would never get sucked into such slaughter.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • After the slaughter was over and the killers had moved on, Las Casas stayed behind to tend to the injured.
    — Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This means any component of a vaccine cannot be found in the animal prior to milking or slaughter.
    — David Verhoeven, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
  • The slaughter of Haitians and the destruction of private property by armed groups have not ceased.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Experts have compared it to fattening a pig before slaughter.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025

slaughter

2 of 2 verb
  • Our team got slaughtered yesterday.
  • They were slaughtered at scale for meat and leather.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Some have fallen from trucks on their way to slaughter.
    — Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
  • Some have fallen from trucks on their way to slaughter.
    — Eric Adler april 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2026
  • That’s why he got slaughtered in the election.
    — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Babies were slaughtered in their cribs.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
  • And almost all of them are being slaughtered.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026
  • It’s killed and slaughtered a lot of innocent people.
    — NBC news, 7 June 2026
  • The cycle will continue for two to four more years before she is sent to slaughter.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • The end result is a new type of meat which doesn't require any animal to be slaughtered.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Halal is hand-slaughtered by Muslims.
    — Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • As with the others, the pitiless treatment only ends when they’re slaughtered.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • These small banks are slaughtering the low expectations the market set for them.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Sheep are overwhelmingly bred and slaughtered for meat, either lamb or mutton.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Greeks raze the city, slaughter many of its inhabitants, and enslave those who survive.
    — Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Many Black families were slaughtered in their homes under the cover of darkness.
    — Lauren Nicole Henley, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
  • As part of this act of atonement, four bulls and four heifers are slaughtered at the sanctuaries of the nymphs, and their bodies are left in a grove.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Well, Boston held an election on Tuesday and Kraft got slaughtered.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Christians in large numbers are being slaughtered in that West African nation.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Du-yeong slaughters an entire building of bloodhounds in the search for So-yeon.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Apr. 2026
  • God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the doorposts and lintels of their homes.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • All Robert has to do is slaughter a few dozen members of the Camorra who are terrorizing the place.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Pigs were illegally slaughtered there.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Before refrigeration – so a long, long time ago – pigs were slaughtered in the fall, preserved and cured to keep safe through the winter months.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Thousands of English troops were being slaughtered in the trench warfare against Germany.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Navajo people had their sheep–their food supply and source of income–slaughtered by the federal government.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • His dishes include hand-slaughtered, halal chicken from the brand Crescent, which Ashraf calls the best of the best.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Some 2 million people, nearly a quarter of the population, were slaughtered or starved to death.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Lovebugs are vegetarians who feed on pollen and nectar and lack the speed, the jaws and grasping legs to catch and slaughter a mosquito.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • Butchering an animal for meat — slaughtering cows, pigs, lambs — was an act of necessity, not pleasure.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025

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