Example sentences for: slaughtered

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

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

  • To put plausibility and punch in this theoretical argument, Clinton cited Milosevic's past aggression and invoked images of slaughtered innocents.

  • Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...

  • Inspired, no doubt, by the reception to South Park on television and to its ancestor Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-head , the film depicts nations going to war, thousands being gorily slaughtered, and characters journeying to heaven and hell.

  • 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.


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