slaughtered

past tense of slaughter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of slaughtered Still, a currency collapse last year and high inflation triggered widespread unrest, and the regime slaughtered thousands in a brutal crackdown. Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026 What to Read Providence, by Max Barry Seven years before the start of this novel, an alien species slaughtered everyone aboard a human spaceship—Earth’s first contact with extraterrestrials. Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026 Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered. Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026 More than 10,000 people, including many children, died during the two-year siege of Sarajevo and more than 7,000 Muslims, mostly men and boys were slaughtered within a few days in Srebrenica in July 1995. Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 In 1995, Mladic’s troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the only post-World War II case of genocide in Europe. Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 In 1995, Mladic's troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the only post-World War II case of genocide in Europe. CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026 His restaurant, Danny’s Burger Shack, serves beef slaughtered in Kansas, southern Nebraska and Missouri, supplied through the Braveheart Black Angus Beef program. Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026 Translation - go straight for 2 miles on the general who slaughtered hundreds of Black soldiers who were trying to surrender. Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughtered
Verb
  • The latest planeload landed last week, four days after armed gangs massacred dozens of people in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The regime has demonstrated an extreme brutality toward the population, having massacred thousands of unarmed protestors this past January.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • When a patient of Julia’s daughter is murdered and her medical file disappears, the family becomes prime suspects.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Two Australian surfers, Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman, were murdered in 2015 while traveling through the northwestern state of Sinaloa.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The program tonight will include a tribute to the late republican activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated one year ago, and an observance of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, which is Friday.
    Tamara Keith, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Loosely based on an unfinished novel by Federico García Lorca, a writer assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, the film explores the lives of three gay men in three time periods.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Slaughtered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaughtered. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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