Sentence examples for was getting slaughtered from inspiring English sources

Every politician claims to prefer it when the punditry "misunderestimates" him, as President Bush put it, but John Kerry didn't appear to be enjoying it a bit in December, when he was getting slaughtered in the polls, and even members of his staff shook their heads when he pronounced himself "a good closer".

An example is his "price-based costing," which came into play in the early Nineties when Heinz was getting slaughtered in pet food.

What happened when he went "knocking door-to-door at stereo shops?" "I was getting slaughtered by everybody," Lee told me dejectedly.

"We're getting slaughtered.

The Afghan national police are getting slaughtered.

2.45pm: Poor Howard Webb seems to be getting slaughtered by everyone but the English press.

This group has been a bastion of safety for the past few months, and now it's getting slaughtered".

Maribor are getting slaughtered down the flanks here tonight - erratic crossing from Bale and Lennon is the only thing keeping the score down.

But it doesn't work in the densely populated parts of the country: the cities and suburbs where Republicans are getting slaughtered.

For the sake of our electronic toys, guerrillas were getting rich, gorillas were getting slaughtered and the local people were getting paid next to nothing to ruin their country's environment.

10.28am: Incidentally, I'm getting slaughtered in my inbox for linking to Matt Dickinson's piece in the Times (sample email: "What you didn't add was 'if you pay for it'!").