How To Use abattoir In A Sentence
- Police and food standards inspectors raided a British abattoir and meat processing company yesterday on suspicion that they were passing off horsemeat as beef. Times, Sunday Times
- The company does not own its own livestock or abattoirs, acting as a distributor and packager of meat. Times, Sunday Times
- The modernisation also meant that the abattoir could easily be used by individual butchers or groups of tradesmen.
- Surely the more old-fashioned idea of locally-reared meat being slaughtered at a local abattoir a short distance away makes perfect sense.
- The Lyre of Orpheus is Abattoir's romantic, come-down counterpart, though Cave can't resist rhyming the title with ‘orifice.’
- The report said the blame for the tests not being carried out rested with official veterinary surgeons employed within abattoirs to look for suspect animals.
- In the meanwhile Orinoco—her nails long since cleansed underneath but now painted in the darkest black cherry possible—had exercised the good sense to rely on thin even coats of sweet-scent morticians' wax to impart a semblance of freshness, pots of heavy black coffee each night to abate her abattoir breath, and incessant cigarettes to keep her lips warm. Penultimate Vampirekiller for 2012
- Dried blood is another animal product from the abattoir, this time to supply nitrogen.
- The keeping of computerised records, the thorough tagging of farm animals and the application of higher standards of inspection at slaughterhouses and abattoirs will assist.
- The flock is regularly rounded up by a farmer with a quad bike, driven through a race and mobile weigh-bridge so that the meatiest lambs can be channelled into the trailer destined for the abattoir. Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley