Sentence examples for slaughter it from inspiring English sources

The Somme was not the first or last battle to deliver huge casualties for minimal gain, but thanks to the sheer ineptitude of its strategy and inexpressible scale of its slaughter, it has held a particular place in the conscience of Europe since shortly after it concluded, a byword for the appalling waste and futility of war.

Most families keep a sheep, slaughter it, and then hang its remains in one of these rooms, taking scrapings of dried mutton for the next year's worth of lunches.

Woodcock said: "Russia under Putin has been steadily increasing its level of threat to its neighbours, and after the slaughter it sponsored in Aleppo, it deserves to be treated as a pariah nation.

Even if you can't call yourself a proud equine parent, when you see a horse, the instinctual reaction is usually to pet the animal or remark on its beauty, not to slaughter it.

In life it roamed free and ate a natural diet; after slaughter it was air-chilled to preserve its flavor.

The tower stood like a beacon warning the world of the slaughter it had witnessed.

"If we wanted a chicken my uncle had to slaughter it.

Even in a war that set new standards for slaughter, it was a battle beyond compare.

And slaughter it has indeed been, at least from some quarters.

It is instructive to read of unimaginable slaughter; it is equally instructive to read of efforts to transcend it.

"It was right to defend the people in Benghazi from wholesale slaughter, it was right for NATO to be involved.