Sentence examples for were butchered from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
The rest were butchered on the place and sold.
Of the 78 people killed, some were butchered.
Many of the victims were butchered with machetes by their neighbours.
In a massacre at Makombo, 300 people were butchered and 150 abducted.
The city acted after about 15 trees along Sunset Strip were butchered in August.
All nine were butchered by US-trained assassins in San Salvador.
It is unclear how the girl died, but she was almost certainly dead and buried before her remains were butchered.
Thousands of manuscripts from Iran, Moghul Hindustan and Turkey were butchered through much of the 20th century, for commerce.
They were butchered or deported in the hundreds of thousands with the connivance of their own government.
The bones of deer- and horse-size mammals at the site indicated that they were butchered with the tools.
The garrisons that resisted him were butchered, and at Montbrison, in Forez, he forced 18 prisoners to precipitate themselves from the top of the keep.
