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"Sadly Matt cannot be with us tonight because he is slaughtering people on stage in the West End," said Moffat, referring to Smith's role in musical American Psycho.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2014

From his steadily building stock, Morgan is slaughtering at the rate of 13,000 frogs daily, shipping 1� tons of legs to a cannery in the nearby town of G�ines.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this time one man can readily kill 100 or 200 Rabbits in a day, and every bird and beast of prey is slaughtering Rabbits without restraint.

From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson

His coat hangs on a tree hard by, and he, standing in his shirt sleeves, is slaughtering regiments of weeds with a long hoe. 

From Behind the Bungalow by Aitken, Edward Hamilton

I can fancy the official answering my look of horror with,—"Yes, Sir, it looks like a high charge, Sir; but in these days slaughtering is slaughtering."

From The Biglow Papers by Hughes, Thomas