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"Slaughter" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act.
Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".
Slaughter is the best medicine.
A merciless slaughter was committed in Srebrenica in 1995.
The enemy committed a horrible slaughter in the city.
I cannot slaughter a bull by myself. I need two people to help me.
He knows how to slaughter a sheep.
Where did you slaughter them?
He immediately goes after her, like an ox to the slaughter.
He immediately follows her, like an ox to the slaughter.
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1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416, For ſin, on war and mutual ſlaughter bent.
[…] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.
Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.
Therefore cheere vp your mindes, prepare to fight, He that can take or ſlaughter Tamburlaine, Shall rule the Prouince of Albania.
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