Example Sentences

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It’s on a stretch of Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood known as Little Santo Domingo, where fish cutters have been butchering whole fish for home cooks at Plaza Seafood since the early 1990s.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2021

“Advertisers have been butchering the English language for years,” she said, citing “Manwich, Swiffer, Jazzercise and Renuzit.”

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2014