Sentence examples for had been slaughtered from inspiring English sources

Three sheep had been slaughtered.

All the pigs had been slaughtered in autumn or winter.

Some 11,000 elephants had been slaughtered, almost a quarter of the country's entire elephant population.

But by 1638 thousands of the peasants and their samurai mercenaries had been slaughtered.

The message young men took back to their villages was that thousands had been slaughtered.

Schoolboys who had been slaughtered around the same time failed to register on the world's conscience.

They had been slaughtered with knives and shot at close distance.

When Bartholomew was born, they said it was the day the Huguenots had been slaughtered in France.

Pelloux arrived late at the magazine office on Wednesday to find many of his colleagues had been slaughtered.

Disorder ensued, and in 1994 President Boris Yeltsin sent in his troops, only to be forced to retreat after perhaps 14,000 of them had been slaughtered.

The growth of the pigs' teeth, and the amount they had worn, showed that they had been slaughtered for the table at the age of nine months.