slaughterhouses
- plural of slaughterhouse.
Example Sentences
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Enacting the ban in Providence, he says, was easy: the city already prohibits the building of prisons, incinerators and slaughterhouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
"In addition to setting up that 20 kilometre zone, we've increased the amount of testing in the slaughterhouses," Muir said.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
The link between disdain and action may not form, in the same way that people who don’t like slaughterhouses still eat steak.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2025
We often don’t want to think of the barbarism of the act, which is why slaughterhouses and factory farms are often located out in the middle of nowhere.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024
We may presume that Neanderthals were not pleased to see their traditional hunting grounds turned into Sapiens-controlled slaughterhouses.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
