Sentence examples for had been slaughtering from inspiring English sources

A spokesperson for the Haute-Savoie prefecture confirmed that rangers from the National Hunting and Wildlife Office ONCFSS) had been slaughtering goats since Thursday — a decision that flies in the face of environmental experts' advice.

Three sheep had been slaughtered.

A lamb had been slaughtered and a fire prepared.

All the pigs had been slaughtered in autumn or winter.

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

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

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

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.

He said that between January and August 2013, more than 22,500 otherwise healthy cattle had been slaughtered because of bovine TB.