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Sentence Examples Both pathogens can colonise the intestines of beef cattle and get into the food chain during slaughter at the abattoir. The only definitions at all relevant to the present debate appear to be a slaughter or massacre, or mass murder of people in a specific group. This in my opinion was no more of a noble battle than any unwarranted slaughter in the history of the mankind. This led the company to convert a part of the abattoir to slaughter small stock. It was a slow slaughter, peppered with massacres and atrocities from which whole generations are still recovering. Surely the job of an army is to slaughter marauding foreigners, not its own troops? The Adagio ma non troppo gives some hint of the agony he endured as the weary months of combat yielded their slaughter. Organic livestock producers must not feed mammalian or poultry slaughter byproducts to mammals or poultry. And he accepted without censure that its impulse to slaughter the babies of other animals was entirely natural. A farming couple have won the right to appeal against a ban stopping them moving their cattle for slaughter amid fears of mad cow disease. And even they liked it, came increasingly willingly to the slaughter, Posh and Becks, John Humphries, Germaine Greer, ready to take him on. Why is the US safeguarding some Kurds in Iraq while facilitating the slaughter of others? They had even been so foolish as to slaughter a mere angel who had been visiting a local church to bestow blessings on the regular attendants. They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter. Farmers hoped to send their animals to early slaughter to avoid financial losses. Hanoverian artillery cut the Jacobite troops to pieces, and Culloden was a slaughter. Her concerns range from shocking acts of internecine slaughter to the emotional loneliness of the war reporter. Thus, Labour chiefs believe Osborne will be like a lamb to the slaughter for Brown. I didn't know what I was doing, but I thought I did and I was like a lamb to the slaughter because of it. For the first time the audience knows what he does not know and cannot guess, that he is going like a lamb to the slaughter. Show More Sentences She must have known what was up when she saw the chaise but she gets in like a lamb to the slaughter. Yes, Kelley herself is not exactly an innocent lamb being led to media slaughter. The frame itself was nothing short of a battlefield to the indiscriminate slaughter of Yales and Stubbs. Butchers from Tibet come especially to slaughter yaks whose meat is then dried and smoked. Meanwhile, anarchy reigns in the countryside as bandits, vowing to help the poor, raid and slaughter government convoys. For kosher meat, Kashrut law stipulates that all meat must be consumed within 72 hours of slaughter. A wide-eyed innocent, Matthew is initially the lamb to the slaughter as he falls under the spell of the beguiling Isabelle. At worst, the outcome could be wholesale slaughter on a scale that makes the current level of daily mayhem look like the peaceable kingdom. Tartan is pulled across the cold steel floor like an animal being brought to the slaughter by a ravenous predator. In fact, laws of kashrut are traditionally cited as yielding the most humane methods of slaughter. Three weeks of rapine, slaughter and plunder were sufficient to anger the king and the emperor, who entered into negotiations with each other. Most have moved tremendous numbers of cattle from one ranch to another rather than selling off herds for slaughter. These cattle will be managed by the community, who will benefit from the production of the herd through the sale of weaners and slaughter cattle. But up to 1962, they were grazing and watering cattle there, pending their slaughter. To stop the slaughter, a struggle had to be taken up against the warmongers in control, on both sides. Just like without the wanton slaughter, rape and theft of Native Americans and their territories there would be NO USA whatsoever! The forebear surely would have been horrified that the alleged perpetrator of the resulting slaughter was of his own blood. Blame the African countries and the amoral people who go into the savannahs and the forests and slaughter the animals. Those who do nothing to end the slaughter are as complicit as those who brandish their weapons. Spanish abattoirs are used to slaughter many Portuguese cattle. Show More Sentences Could it be that we oppress and kill each other so readily because our abuse and slaughter of animals has desensitized us to the suffering and death of others? A typical meat-eating animal welfare advocate is personally responsible for the slaughter of twenty-two warm-blooded animals per year, 1,500 in an average lifetime. A few weeks later the monks laid siege to a Muslim-owned abattoir in Colombo to halt the slaughter of cattle. Even if there were cows, they belonged to the commune and no one was allowed to slaughter them or consume them. Generally, slaughter of goats, sheep, rams, cows, and camels is offered. The country that once sought to slaughter Paul was devastated by his demise. The dangers of writing either melodramatically or reductively about the slaughter and terror at the center of these new killing fields are all too real. With ewes lambing now, lambs for slaughter are in short supply. I watched him move around the pre-op room, a handsome man in his scrubs, tall and strong, unlike poor me, lying there like a lamb to the slaughter. Mike Pulsford, defending, said Penrose had arrived at court like a lamb to the slaughter knowing what sentence the youth court had already given to his accomplice. Politicians in Washington may think of slaughter in semiotic terms, but the people on the ground never do. A statue showing Medea about to slaughter her children symbolizes the reproof of infanticide. In this case, death is clearly shown as a contained force, even a holy force. It told people when to move to new hunting grounds, when to plant crops, when to bury the dead, anoint new rulers, slaughter animals, make babies. But, while their identity as victims legitimated their cause, it also conferred on them the image of a people who had gone like lambs to the slaughter. Most who oppose the war are instinctively revolted by its slaughter. The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place. They participated in the indiscriminate slaughter of countless innocent victims. Perhaps the biggest challenge in developing a robust and growing forage-finished program is the assurance of an equally distributed, year-round supply of slaughter cattle. It merely earned him some much-needed Brownie points and assuaged the general grief and shock of a nation, understandably numbed by the slaughter of innocent children. In 1988 Saddam Hussein used gas to slaughter thousands of men, women, and children in the Kurdish city of halabja. Show More Sentences The same thing happens when her mute daughter, the sweet Kattrin, is shot as she tries to warn a hamlet of impending slaughter. To most of the world, Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator, responsible for the slaughter of 100,000 or more. Getting people to pay attention to a possible new round of slaughter in the region proved difficult. In her white prom dress, Carrie is like a lamb to the slaughter, the blood besmirching her innocence. When Dan Honig was getting ready to slaughter a steer for the first time, he expected to feel devastated. Her moving speech not only saved the pig's skin, but also resulted in a countywide policy prohibiting the slaughter of animals raised at public schools. I am currently using turkey feathers to fletch with, after spending half a day on a commercial turkey farm plucking wing feathers as the birds went into the slaughter house. When the bison slaughter rose to its height, wolves and other scavengers thrived on the availability of carrion, and wolf numbers probably spiked briefly. Delving into why this slaughter never happened uncovers a story of spy-craft, subterfuge and tightly-kept secrets. The farm, which would breed and fatten up to 150,000 hogs annually for slaughter, would have made the facility one of Alberta's largest hog operations. They are the family annihilators, whose bloodlust is only satisfied by the slaughter of their own children. And through the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the power of the blessed Virgin Mary his mother there was great slaughter among them. Even intestinal contents removed at slaughter may be recovered for use as fertilizer. Macbeth orders Macduff's castle be seized, and, most cruelly, sends murderers to slaughter Macduff, as well as Macduff's wife and children. The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament. Appropriate methods to slaughter livestock were an early target for legislation. In reality, there is nothing to celebrate about an industry which ritualises the mass slaughter of birds for sport. Saving animals from slaughter for meat, is believed to be a way to acquire merit for better rebirth. Then Harald the King was slain, and Leofwine the Earl, his brother, and Gyrth, and many good men, and the Frenchmen held the place of slaughter. To begin with, on a routine inspection, Joe discovers the wholesale slaughter of 21 sage grouse in a breeding area. Show More Sentences It is absolutely mind-blowing to think that in 21st century Britain, we still allow religious slaughter to take place. It's bloodthirsty mayhem, with a nubile young skinny-dipper the first casualty of the slaughter. Tacitus says that the Britons had no interest in taking or selling prisoners, only in slaughter by gibbet, fire, or cross. Gerrard discloses that the pancreas is sometimes substituted for sweetbread and is referred to as gutbread in English slaughter houses. The Dutch carved 68 parcels out of the islands after the enslavement and slaughter of the natives. In response, de Alvarado ordered a preemptive slaughter of Aztec nobles and priests celebrating a festival in the city's main temple. When cooked at a pig slaughter festival, they may also contain the animal's blood. A 1924 outbreak in California resulted not only in the slaughter of 109,000 farm animals, but also 22,000 deer. People were said to be herded together with animal houses, slaughter houses and communal lavatories with open drains running between them. For him I must convert one of my sheep or goats to sesterces and slaughter another for his entertainment. Dispirito asks them to boycott Canadian snow crabs until that country's annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seals is permanently halted. Meet Roger, the horse saved from slaughter by a carriage driver. It is estimated Surrey lost one hundred knights and five thousand infantrymen in the slaughter at Stirling Bridge. After slaughter, the ULTRA-FOM 300 apparatus was used to estimate meatiness in the longissimus lumborum muscle of the warm carcasses. Patrick O'Donoghue has landed a job as a helicopter pilot crusading against Japan's cruel slaughter in the Antarctic Ocean. Then the Anunnaki gods slaughter a minor deity and the goddess Belet-ili mixes the clay with the flesh and blood of the sacrificed god. Effect of age at slaughter on carcass traits, fatty acid composition and lipid oxidation of Apulian lambs. Changes in slaughter age and animal size are possibly evidence for sheep being kept for their wool at Corded Ware sites in this region. Was WW1 a just war or were ordinary people sent to the slaughter for the not very glorious cause of redividing the world and its resources? The Wildlife Conservation Society has pointed out that the global ivory trade leads to the slaughter of up to 35,000 elephants a year in Africa. Show More Sentences The decision came after several mass slaughters of African elephants, most notably the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter in Chad. Lairages at Llangefni will be kept open so that local farmers can send stock for slaughter at St Asaph. The slaughter or capture of prisoners of war also appears to have been condemned by Ashoka. In times of scarcity, wolves readily eat carrion, visiting cattle burial grounds and slaughter houses. Scrapple was originally a type of savory pudding that early Pennsylvania Germans made to preserve the offal of a pig slaughter. Though the shock at the slaughter was enormous, the Romans immediately began a slow, systematic process of preparing for the reconquest of the country. He was in his youth and desired to avenge the slaughter of Agelmund. Germanicus' campaign had been taken to avenge the Teutoburg slaughter and also partially in reaction to indications of mutinous intent amongst his troops. The struggle against the aristocracy turned into wholesale slaughter, while the Emperor resorted to ever more ruthless measures to shore up his regime. Their warring casualty rate was far lower than that of their Spanish counterparts, whose principal objective was immediate slaughter during battle. He dubbed them mutton-birds, for they came like lambs to the slaughter. This twice saved convoys from slaughter by the German battleships. But the king nevertheless withstood him very strongly with fighting with those men who would follow him, and there was a great slaughter on either side. It was thought that ritual slaughter of animals associated with Samhain was moved to this date, so as to assure enough animals were kept alive for winter. I have even heard the term of epic Koranic proportions, in reference to this slaughter of soldiers and officers and men who were mere business partners in this venture. Chickens raised in this way are known as broilers, and genetic improvements have meant that they can be grown to slaughter weight within six or seven weeks of hatching. The Sutra texts and the Jatakas completely rule out animal killing whereas in Vedic and Brahmanical texts, animal slaughter is not considered intrinsically wrong at all. However, the full effects of castration on sheepmeat flavor remain unclear and other factors, including age at slaughter, also need to be considered. In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them. For instance, he makes sure that the reader is aware that the weapons taken by the Inca army, tumis, are ritual weapons used for the ritual hunt and slaughter of llamas. Show More Sentences For many abattoirs, very little animal biomass may be wasted at slaughter. Campaigns continue to target halal and kosher religious ritual slaughter. The German occupiers committed numerous atrocities, mass executions, and wholesale slaughter of civilians and destruction of towns and villages in reprisals. Animals may be transported long distances to market and slaughter, often under overcrowded conditions, heat stress, lack of feed and water, and without rest breaks. Following the gales it is reckoned that 5,000 men died, by drowning, starvation and slaughter at the hands of English forces after they were driven ashore in Ireland. And further I imagined and sayd, Alasse what Judge is he that is so gentle or benigne, that will thinke that I am unguilty of the slaughter and murther of these three men. Whosis has been around, and has made provisions to circumvent any wanton slaughter of his perfectly good name. Whosis has a card. The card comes in to you. With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and blood-coloured foliage inwound It shall crown as a heifer's for slaughter the forehead for marriage uncrowned? Another licensed cleric in Judaism is the shochet, who are trained and licensed by religious authorities for kosher slaughter according to ritual law. The goal was to let none of the animals escape and to slaughter them all. The person who slaughters the animal is called a shochet, he has trained for many years and uses a surgically sharp knife called a chalaf to slaughter the animal. Interestingly, this priest also analogized the issue of gestational limits on abortion to the story of Herod's slaughter of innocent children in Bethlehem. Examples from Classical Literature The still hunting of the natives has all the romance and danger attending the slaughter of sheep in an abattoir. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within an acre of land. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half an acre of land. Asha, standing stripped for the slaughter, was made King by the clamor of the men who stoned So-qi to death. That attack had been repulsed with slaughter, and the brigade was concentrated. Dawned a day of mighty slaughter and of dread and deathful war, Ancient Bhishma, in his anger drove once more his sounding car! And give they not the guerdon and the honour they deny me, to the empirics that slaughter them? And give they not the guerdon and the honour they deny me to the empirics that slaughter them? It sustained three sieges, and in 1644 was escaladed and taken by Prince Rupert with considerable slaughter. The courts cannot protect from its venom, and to kill a defamer and a falsifier is not yet adjudged as legalized slaughter. We lose great battles there and Fredericksburg they say was just a slaughter of our men. Even his fellow-regicides, even the authors of the slaughter of Vendemiaire and of the arrests of Fructidor, were ashamed of him. I'll go as far as the next man and we'll glom that black coral if we have to slaughter every man, woman, and child on the island. The Helvetii were defeated with great slaughter, and the remnant compelled to return to their former homes. I will hunt out General O'Neill, and interview him on the field of slaughter. For the sake of one of your precious eyelashes I would spit on the names of the gods and slaughter the holy cow. Astor did not debauch, spoliate, and incite slaughter because he took pleasure in doing them. It was pure slaughter otherwise, without a chance to fight back. The reality is there would be no need for this mass slaughter of man's best friend if owners just looked after them properly. So the body was left, and the adelantado approved the slaughter. Show More Sentences The result, of course, was a wholesale slaughter of americanisms. But he was dead enough, for all that, being both shot and drowned, and was food for fish in the very place where he had designed my slaughter. As long as a killable bird remains, she will not stop the slaughter. And all your Science you have turned to the efficient slaughter of men. It was not worth while to sit through the slaughter of thirty buffaloes. What comfort he could have found in the slaughter of Moabites or Amalekites, or even Philistines, it is hard to imagine. Hardly was the thing done before another poor wretch was brought up, like an ox to the slaughter. He should never have had to boast of the slaughter of our men. The bushrangers were to attack them three times, and be defeated with immense slaughter. Her death was soon avenged by the slaughter of the Normans at cardigan. In the mean time, the slaughter was about to commence on the other side. The senseless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of days-old baby seals is a crime to which all but the government and the slaughterers will admit. But, gentlemen, the fool had been branded for the slaughter by the gods. Under the skillful generalship of the Circles almost every Woman's charge was fatal and very many extracted their sting uninjured, ready for a second slaughter. They were wild with elation, and were for finishing the day in one glorious rush upon the village, during which they would slaughter the last of their foemen. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of slaughter? Words that rhyme with slaughter What is the past tense of slaughter? What is the plural of slaughter? What is the adverb for slaughter? What is the adjective for slaughter? What is the noun for slaughter? Translations for slaughter Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words slaty Slattery slatternly slattern slatter slatted Slaughter slaughtered slaughterer slaughterers slaughterhouse slaughtering 9-letter Words Starting With s sl sla slau slaug slaugh slaught slaughte