Example Sentences

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Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2023

Jordan Monkarsh is the son of a Jewish butcher, who fled Poland in the 1930s — and who himself was the son of a ritual slaughterer in the old country.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2019

“They go from being a slaughterer of mice to a couch potato,” says Eva Maria-Geigl, an evolutionary geneticist who oversaw the study with molecular biologist Thierry Grange, both at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris. 

From Science Magazine • Jun. 19, 2017

Investigations into QK and one other company – a horse slaughterer caught mislabelling horse with labels in Czech which translated as "beef" – continue.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2013

But he was linked to me in marriage bond, And would you have me love his slaughterer?

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)