Example sentences for: slaughtered

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

  • And just having opinions about religious matters isn't enough--an atheist, no matter how earnest, would, says a historian quoted in the piece, still get slaughtered.

  • The horses and superior weaponry of the Spaniards gave them the edge, and they slaughtered hundreds of Indian warriors.

  • The final showdown — at Culloden in 1746 — saw the Jacobite army slaughtered.

  • The former is informed and terrifying: "The president was willing to let hundreds of thousands of people get slaughtered in Rwanda."

  • Of the innumerable commentaries on Che that have been published in the last few weeks, Alma Guillermoprieto offered the clearest, in The New Yorker . "He was a fanatic," she wrote, "consumed by restlessness and a frightening abstract hatred, who in the end recognized only one moral value as supreme: the willingness to be slaughtered for a cause."


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