[ US /ˈbʊtʃɝi/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊt‍ʃəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the savage and excessive killing of many people
  2. a building where animals are butchered
  3. the business of a butcher
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How To Use butchery In A Sentence

  • A horrible series of futile uprisings against impossible odds and always ending in butchery and defeat for the rebels.
  • Those were the good old days, the glory days of butchery and brutality, before those millions of sesterces from the east flooded Rome with luxury and indolence.
  • Believe me when I tell you that a funny feeling creeps over you when you see a handsome man in fine tweeds roll up his sleeves, take out his hunting knife, and set about his strange, bloody butchery high on a mountainside.
  • This is botchery and sometimes butchery, not reviewing. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
  • As we do our grisly march through slavery, genocide, and butchery for profit my students often ask, does anyone learn from history?
  • Evidence has emerged, however, for a range of service activities, including metalworking, cooking and animal butchery.
  • In a parallel 'pincer' front, as the media are being cleaned out and cleared up, be bringing the charges and indictments against bureaucrats and officials, elected and appointed during, and part of, the Bushbutchery atrocity. Getting ready to hold Obama's feet to the fire.
  • Bernard Vandaele (KULeuven) and by Kerim Altu (Istanbul University) supervised the northern excavations, first focusing on the space just north of the unexcavated structure we tentatively identified as a butchery (see introduction). Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 3
  • Disembowellments, lower jaws hewn off, spears piercing thighs, bladders, lungs, eye sockets - each and every one of the harsh clinical, medical details of Homeric butchery.
  • If we don't stabilize Iraq, unchecked bloody civil war will break out and the butchery will be 100X worse than present levels Lefties blubber about so "heartfeltly". "The biggest question is how far can Democrats go in opposing this president?"
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