Example sentences for: slaughtered

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

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

  • --announcing the cynicism and greed and callousness that underlie the Gulf War, as the refugees are slaughtered.

  • Algerian atrocity watch : Militants 1) decapitated or cut the throats of 12 children and 26 adults in one village; 2) similarly massacred 22 children and 15 adults in another village; 3) slaughtered 20 teen-agers and young adults at a wedding; and 4) attacked a school bus and killed the driver and 16 children, some of whom were shot through the head.

  • In return, the Turks violently put down every insurrection, including the massacre on Chios, when 22,000 people were slaughtered.

  • 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.


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