Example sentences for: slaughtered

How can you use “slaughtered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.

  • Room 21: Vittore Carpaccio depicts in nine canvases the bizarre Story of St. Ursula, a British princess, said to have led 11,000 virgins on a pilgrimage to Rome, all of whom were raped and slaughtered on their way back.

  • Just as in the Bible, when a ram was substituted for Abraham, lambs are slaughtered, cooked, and shared by families or local neighborhoods.

  • "The defectors said special forces disguised as 'fundamentalists' with beards and Muslim dress slaughtered entire families in the middle of the night."

  • Cattle could also be kept off feed for 12 or more hours before they are slaughtered.


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