Sentence examples for upon the slaughter from inspiring English sources
Passing time had tempted some Americans to look upon the slaughter of thousands of people in one go on September 11th last year as a one-off, a "lucky" strike on a scale the terrorists would be hard-pressed to repeat once the Americans had toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and so deprived al-Qaeda of its sanctuary.
In Lowell's bleak vision, the Bostonians' fenced gardens of probity were founded upon the indiscriminate slaughter of the original inhabitants of the land.
The British agreed to help put an end to the slaughter of seals and decided upon joint action with the United States in prosecuting the poachers.
In his view, the century's most distinctive feature was violence: the slaughter, and not only in war, of millions upon millions of people.
The slaughter was prodigious.
The slaughter was devastating.
The slaughter is sky-rocketing.
Driving the slaughter is desire.
The slaughter was unimaginably shocking.
