Example Sentences

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But France had butchered numerous try-scoring opportunities in a surprise defeat by England at Allianz Stadium last time out, and looked intent on making amends.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2025

Cooks who had butchered a huge bull prepared food for a feast for hundreds of people.

From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2022

They were going to win, even if it required her nailing a Britney-inspired move she had butchered for the better part of four years.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2018

She was planning to give her pastor venison next week, from a deer Breiten Ramsey had shot and his father had butchered, because she knew he loved the meat.

From Washington Post

With old hand embracing old hand they sat staring at the rapine of the lightning, the tigerish atrocity that had butchered and mutilated their beloved trees.

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert