How to Use slaughter in a Sentence

slaughter

1 of 2 noun

• One day, the rangers hoped to raise crocodiles all the way to slaughter.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Male survivors of the slaughter over age 25 had their right foot cut off.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
• This is achieved by feeding the cattle a large amount of grain before the slaughter.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2022
• Their weapons would in effect be used for the slaughter of people in Ukraine.
  — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2023
• Some are sold to other ranchers for breeding or for slaughter.
  — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
• Both grow small amounts of chicken cells into slabs of meat—no slaughter required.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• But a slaughter of all the men, without distinction among them?
  — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
• The task now is to stop the slaughter in Gaza, not enable it by sending more weapons.
  — William Hartung, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Unlike cows, chickens, and pigs, very few fish are stunned before slaughter.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2023
• These, too, were running out, owing to slaughter and plunder.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Its steak, that is—a rich slab of meat grown from stem cells, in a bioreactor, no cows or slaughter required.
  — Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• Cattle and hog slaughter numbers come out daily.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
• This slaughter must end, this occupation must end.
  — Jack Sheehan september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
• The con is called pig butchering — so named because victims are likened to hogs, fattened up for slaughter.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
• Back then, the sector focused on drugs that helped cattle and swine survive long enough to make slaughter weight.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
• The slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.
  — James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
• But Serkis prefers his Trojan horse without the slaughter.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
• Live cattle refer to cows that have been fattened at feedlots to a suitable heft for slaughter.
  — WSJ, 1 June 2023
• The mom had been kept for breeding while her piglets were allegedly intended for slaughter.
  — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• There’s enough poetic irony there to land the billionaire slaughter in the middle of the list.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
• Economists track slaughter figures to help track middle-men in the meat market.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
• Sows looking up from crates, chickens unable to walk, pigs still conscious hanging from slaughter lines.
  — Meimei Fox, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The slaughter of all our characters one by one—Maeve, Bernard, Stubbs, etc.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• Those attacking us want to silence criticism of a mass slaughter.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 Aug. 2025
• Here’s The Denver Post’s stock report from the slaughter.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
• His parents wanted to make sure that he and his older brother would never get sucked into such slaughter.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
• After the slaughter was over and the killers had moved on, Las Casas stayed behind to tend to the injured.
  — Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
• This means any component of a vaccine cannot be found in the animal prior to milking or slaughter.
  — David Verhoeven, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• The slaughter of Haitians and the destruction of private property by armed groups have not ceased.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
• Experts have compared it to fattening a pig before slaughter.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025

slaughter

2 of 2 verb

• Our team got slaughtered yesterday.
• They were slaughtered at scale for meat and leather.
  — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
• Some have fallen from trucks on their way to slaughter.
  — Eric Adler april 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2026
• Some have fallen from trucks on their way to slaughter.
  — Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
• That’s why he got slaughtered in the election.
  — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
• Eli’s wife and two teenage daughters were slaughtered in front of him.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• At the end of the war, two-thirds of those Jews have been slaughtered.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• Babies were slaughtered in their cribs.
  — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
• An even bigger quandary is how insects should be slaughtered.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• Upholding the wrong call was the right call, but he still was slaughtered for it.
  — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• And almost all of them are being slaughtered.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026
• The mom had been kept alive for breeding, and most of her young had been taken and slaughtered.
  — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
• And the bottom line is that this gal didn’t do very well in the divorce–she got slaughtered.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
• Instead a third party slaughtered him when he was returned by deputies.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• It’s killed and slaughtered a lot of innocent people.
  — NBC news, 7 June 2026
• Cows that would normally have a calf in the next few years are instead going to slaughter.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• The cycle will continue for two to four more years before she is sent to slaughter.
  — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
• What happened to drive the girls to hunt down and slaughter one of their own is the heart of the series, after all.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• The end result is a new type of meat which doesn't require any animal to be slaughtered.
  — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
• But those plants slaughter more than 25 million chickens and turkeys a day.
  — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
• The inability to see that and fatalism is what sets us up to be slaughtered the next time.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
• Halal is hand-slaughtered by Muslims.
  — Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
• July 25, for instance, is a good day to slaughter your livestock.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• As with the others, the pitiless treatment only ends when they’re slaughtered.
  — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
• But before the animal was to be slaughtered, the young girl begged not to give up the goat that had become a beloved pet.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Whenever the disease is found the entire flock is slaughtered to help limit the spread of the virus.
  — Terry Chea, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• An unknown criminal is on the loose, slaughtering rich men in a twisted game played to death.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
• The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death.
  — Marlon GonzÁlez, ajc, 21 June 2023
• These small banks are slaughtering the low expectations the market set for them.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
• All of the ship’s livestock is discovered slaughtered, their necks ripped open by horrific bites.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023