Sentence examples for it a slaughter from inspiring English sources

General Lee, when he had seen its unfinished state, had recommended abandoning the fort, calling it a "slaughter pen".

"It's just the idea that it's a slaughter place," said Helen Mayfield, president of the co-op board at 800 Grand Concourse, one of several buildings in which residents are upset.

(The famous scene with the military school students never happened during that raid; something like it did happen during Sherman's sweep through the Carolinas, but it was a slaughter).

That incident itself remains murky: activists say it was a clash between rival military units, but the government says it was a slaughter perpetrated by Islamist militants.

It was a slaughter.

"It was a slaughter of young children".

"It was a slaughter, a massacre," a Syrian with expert knowledge of the military told me.

It is a slaughter of breathtaking duration, ending in a chilling freeze frame.

"It was a slaughter in every sense of the word," Omar recalled when we managed to speak on the phone.

Ron Beal, 91, who landed that day with the Royal Regiment of Canada at Puys, a village just west of Dieppe's main beachfront, said, "It was a slaughter".

"It's a slaughter, and the refugee camps are full, the Jordanians cannot last under the present situation, Lebanon is more and more tilting into chaos," he added.