How to Use slaughterhouse in a Sentence

slaughterhouse

noun
  • Stewie was taken back to the slaughterhouse, where his fate seemed sealed.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Joris had shown Sam a video on his phone one night, a pig in a slaughterhouse.
    — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Mollie Smith had been ripped open like a calf at a slaughterhouse.
    — Skip Hollandsworth, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2016
  • Kind of like at a slaughterhouse except on a much smaller scale.
    — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
  • Grungier than a big-city back alley and more guts-strewn than a slaughterhouse.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Don’t even ask about the town zoo, the slaughterhouse, the topiary maze.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • My father worked at a slaughterhouse.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
  • This is the sacred cow that is being fitted out for the slaughterhouse.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Many neighbors of the Vernon slaughterhouse are glad to be free of its stench.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • Researchers sourced the blood from a local slaughterhouse and fed it to the bats using a pipette.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Once in Texas, Beth needs to find a slaughterhouse for her cattle.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • In some cases, the animals then get sold, which can put them on a path to the slaughterhouse.
    — Mark Scaglione, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Esther cannot help but follow the young man into the slaughterhouse.
    — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Before then, most cattle grazed on the range and were brought to slaughterhouses each fall.
    — Sam Brasch, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The trucks that brought in feed for the hogs or loaded them up for trips to the slaughterhouse tore up the town’s narrow roads.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
  • If this was some kind of escape from the slaughterhouse, the story might just be the … greatest of all time.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2023
  • From haunted car washes and hayrides to slaughterhouses, here are some of the best places to get your scare on.
    — Maria Leontaras, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Where the goats came from is unclear, though there are a number of slaughterhouses in the area where they were found.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
  • The search brings her to the communal slaughterhouse, draped in shadows.
    — Jason Liwag, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
  • All the major studios wanted to cut the slaughterhouse scene.
    — Tom Philip, GQ, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Bartending could be fun, but the worst was working the graveyard shift at a lamb slaughterhouse.
    — Drew Champlin, AL.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Witnessing the birth tugged at the heartstrings of the slaughterhouse owner—and not for the first time.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The horses that hadn’t been sold were being loaded onto a truck, bound for the slaughterhouse.
    — New York Times, 22 July 2021
  • Her mother got a job working nights at the slaughterhouse in Greeley.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Dozens of horses wander the ranch; most are rescues, adopted so they wouldn’t be sent to the slaughterhouse.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • On a drive back from Vegas, she was stuck next to a 16-wheeler of pigs headed to a slaughterhouse.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 28 Sep. 2017
  • That piece, redolent of the boxing ring and the slaughterhouse, is not the only one to invoke violence.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The letter reported the death of the Alabama cow on the way to the slaughterhouse.
    — Special To Al.com, AL.com, 27 Aug. 2017
  • And while the place is milling with cattle, goats, sheep, chickens, and pigs—many ex-farm animals—not one of them will end up in the slaughterhouse.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In February, a bull ran away from a Queens slaughterhouse and led police on a 2-mile chase.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017

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