Sentences with slaughter
slaugh·ter
S s - Thirty four people were slaughtered while queuing up to cast their votes. [be VERB-ed]
- ...a war where the slaughter of civilians was commonplace. [+ of]
- Slaughter, as applied to people, suggests extensive and brutal killing, as in battle or by deliberate acts of wanton cruelty; , massacre implies the indiscriminate and wholesale slaughter of those who are defenseless or helpless to resist; , butchery adds implications of extreme cruelty and of such coldblooded heartlessness as one might display in the slaughtering of animals; , carnage stresses the result of bloody slaughter and suggests the accumulation of the bodies of the slain; , pogrom refers to an organized, often officially inspired, massacre of a minority group, specifically of the Jews in czarist Russia
- Lack of chicken feed means that chicken farms are having to slaughter their stock. [VERB noun]
- They slaughtered our team.