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.

  • Miscellany: Algerian terrorists slaughtered more than 400 villagers in a single night, a new record.

  • They had to coerce and intimidate many of their fellow Hutu to go along with them--thousands of Hutu were also slaughtered in the genocide for failing to join in.

  • The hardened rebels slaughtered Russia's ill-prepared men, ambushing them by the hundreds in Grozny.

  • Joining Tito was the only honorable course for a Croat: The other choice was supporting the Nazis and Croatia's home-grown fascist evil, the Ustasha, which slaughtered Jews and Serbs by the thousands.


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