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Vendors were slaughtering and grilling bats, dogs, rats, crocodiles and snakes, and sanitary measures were scant.

From Washington Times • Feb. 14, 2020

Vendors were slaughtering and grilling bats, dogs, rats, crocodiles and snakes, and sanitary measures were scant.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2020

Where was America, wondered Hitchens, when Hutus were slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda?

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2016

Indeed, the Ottoman Empire demonstrated religious peace while Europeans were slaughtering each other over the nature of the host in communion.

From Time • Jan. 14, 2016

It was bringing swarms of white hunters into the Kansas buffalo range; they were slaughtering the game and wasting the meat.

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)