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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a slaughtered" is grammatically correct but context-dependent in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that has been killed or destroyed, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The once vibrant forest now lay in ruins, a slaughtered landscape of fallen trees and debris."
Alternatives: "a slain" or "a butchered".
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The Treasurer squeals with mirth, like a slaughtered piglet.
Bevilacqua has "saffron-colored fingers" from smoking, and wore "the habitual expression of a slaughtered ram".
An old painting shows villagers at sea using ladders to scale a slaughtered right whale.
How is a meal not "fabulous" and "whole" when all it lacks is a slaughtered animal?
An alleged victim of the Uri Bar-Lev said she felt "like a slaughtered chicken".
The reason is that the parts of a slaughtered cow go everywhere.
Outside the door, a student hefts the carcass of a slaughtered goat.
Danuta Stenka, not Jan Englert, plays the wife of a slaughtered Polish general in Katyn.
The oxidation experiments were performed on individual samples or on a reconstituted mixture representing the ABPs of a slaughtered sheep.
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The first two cases were fallen stock and appeared in 2004, the third one was a slaughtered ewe tested in 2005 that was confirmed by Western blotting as Nor98 at the Norwegian National Veterinary Institute.
The entrails of a slaughtered sheep were drying on a laundry line in the courtyard.
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