Sentence examples for to butchery from inspiring English sources

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to butchery

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The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.

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A key player in the confusion is Dave Dexter Jr., a Capitol Records executive who is described on the book's first page as someone who "despised" rock 'n' roll and whose assembling of the album amounted to "butchery".

The biblical author, by using words more suited to butchery than ritual sacrifice, lets us know that he is as horrified as we are at the brutality of the act that God has asked Abraham to commit.

He found the resultant fragmentation appalling: "To dismantle a work of art into detached pieces, to shake these fragments about in a bag, pull them out again and fit them together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle can only be compared to butchery".

This suggests that skinning and disarticulation activities would require more tool edges relative to butchery events focused purely on defleshing.

Labour MP for Newport West, Paul Flynn, said the cuts amounted to "butchery" of the passport service and would hit the city hard.

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There are guides to choosing cuts, to parsing the differences among the heritage breeds, and to DIY butchery large and small (everything from boning a chicken breast to breaking down whole pigs, goats and lambs).

We should have stood up to the butchery in Syria earlier — not to mention the killings in Darfur and elsewhere.

"Comfort Me with Offal" pokes fun at the many ridiculous aspects of food culture, from celebrity chefdom to hipster butchery (the book is dedicated to "pork" after all).

"The Israeli government may find it difficult to justify its butchery to the rest of the world, but they can still rely on widespread support internally," Pappe says.

They likened the orgies to "slaughter", "killing" and "butchery".

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