slaughtering

present participle of slaughter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of slaughtering Some discussed potential restrictions included the ban of roosters, the ban of slaughtering chickens and requirements around upkeep. R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025 These small banks are slaughtering the low expectations the market set for them. Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025 Even if that’s the case, the only way the timeline could work is if Jonah had started slaughtering people in New York right after killing his mother, which doesn’t fit with the state of extreme guilt Dexter found him in. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025 The prototype was designed together with TU Delft, but new machines will be built, a bit ironically, by Meyn Food Processing Technology, a Dutch manufacturer of poultry-slaughtering equipment. IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughtering
Verb
  • The session proceeded without a live video-feed of the 22-year-old defendant charged with murdering the conservative influencer at a Utah college campus on September 10, alongside counts of felony discharge of a firearm, obstruction, and witness tampering.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Then, in 2024, Gates and Richard James Romano were both charged with murdering Alliauna Green, a rising Oakland rapper who used the stage name Tan DaGod.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The visitors ended up massacring a village, which left her devastated.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The forces of the lords put down the revolt by slaying somewhere between seventy thousand and a hundred thousand peasants.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That anger was repeatedly cast beyond Tyler Robinson, the Utah man charged with slaying Kirk whose name went unsaid throughout the day’s services.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While executing the search warrant, 34 dogs − mostly Chinese Crested but including a mix of breeds and ages − were found confined to a single room.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The Celtics have been one of the best executing teams for years.
    Jay King, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Since then, the Internet has gone about its immemorial business of destroying all incumbent forms of media; not content with vampirizing print, the digital space began sucking the life from pay-TV a dozen years ago.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Critics say returning the company without meaningful payment undercuts accountability and the compensatory purpose of the judgments; others note trustees and Judge Lopez have to avoid value-destroying, prolonged processes.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier this month, the city passed an ordinance giving up city dispatching to Phillips County.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Investigators reported that an alarm system alerted ride workers of an issue and prevented the operators from dispatching the ride.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The artifacts included thimbles, a needle remnant and buttons — in addition to animal bones that showed signs of butchering.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s only one way to get good at butchering, and that’s to do a bunch of it each fall — and follow these tips.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025

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“Slaughtering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaughtering. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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