slaughterhouse
noun
slaugh·ter·house
ˈslȯ-tər-ˌhau̇s 
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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Two tractor-trailers picked up some 80,000 pounds of beef from a slaughterhouse in northeastern Tennessee, and then vanished, the authorities said this week.
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Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
The bleached ruins of a slaughterhouse in Aledo, Illinois, her childhood hometown, are the subject of a painting from 1937.
—Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Inspectors typically visit facilities where frozen pizza is topped with pepperoni at least once a day—inspectors are also present at the slaughterhouse where the pig is butchered and the plant where the actual pepperoni is made.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025
Recent years have shown how the closure of a few big slaughterhouses or a single baby formula factory can trigger price spikes and empty store shelves around the country.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
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Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
The bleached ruins of a slaughterhouse in Aledo, Illinois, her childhood hometown, are the subject of a painting from 1937.
—Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Inspectors typically visit facilities where frozen pizza is topped with pepperoni at least once a day—inspectors are also present at the slaughterhouse where the pig is butchered and the plant where the actual pepperoni is made.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025
Recent years have shown how the closure of a few big slaughterhouses or a single baby formula factory can trigger price spikes and empty store shelves around the country.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for slaughterhouse
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“Slaughterhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slaughterhouse. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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slaughterhouse
noun
slaugh·ter·house
ˈslȯt-ər-ˌhau̇s
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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