How to Use abattoir in a Sentence

abattoir

noun

• Some of the beef from those abattoirs was found to have abscesses caused by a...
  — Jeffrey T. Lewis, WSJ, 23 June 2017
• As an abattoir of reason, the ad at least comports with the spirit of this bailout.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• For the first time in 15 years — and sadly the only time since then — Mogadishu wasn’t an abattoir.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 13 May 2017
• When a beloved cow stops being useful to the herd, it’s taken to the abattoir for slaughter.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2022
• In 2014, when the sect claimed the area as the headquarters of its caliphate, fighters slaughtered hundreds of people in the public abattoir.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020
• That first scene describes, in graphic detail, the slaughter of a 700-pound pig in an abattoir in Gascony, France.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 25 July 2018
• Frank Lee bucked free from the back of a delivery truck chauffeuring him to his doom at a small abattoir in Brooklyn in April 2016.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• Even the luckiest of gamblers sometimes loses—and even the greasiest of piglets sometimes ends up in the abattoir.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• And the Trumps have being doing business in this financial abattoir for years.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 July 2017
• The transition from abattoir to a lab that built life-saving robots seemed fitting.
  — Caroline Lester, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
• The carcasses were processed in a large abattoir in the park, and the meat was canned and distributed in nearby black communities.
  — Adam Welz, The Atlantic, 7 June 2021
• Nades worked as a cleaner at the local abattoir and volunteered for a charity.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• To be fair, this is a problem built into the play, which like all of Shakespeare’s tragedies begins with astonishing rhetoric and ends as an abattoir.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• Scotland’s biggest pig abattoir was forced to close because of shortages of the gas, which is used to stun the animals before slaughter.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 2 July 2018
• An abattoir has to be at least 3,000 feet from a long list of land uses including apartment properties.
  — Houston Chronicle, 29 Feb. 2020
• Even Nancy Meyers' happy kitchens are foodie abattoirs in their way.
  — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• This now frees him to channel federal dollars into that abattoir.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 3 Nov. 2020
• The study, published in the scientific journal Frontiers on Friday, looked at samples of rumen from Alpine cows in an abattoir in Austria.
  — Sara Spary, CNN, 2 July 2021
• Austrian farmers can butcher their own meat—their cows are calm and content right up until the end—but in Germany the animals must be transported to the abattoir.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• AgriProtein’s fly larvae were originally pampered with blood from abattoirs mixed with bran, while the adults were fed milk powder, molasses and sugar.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• In the evenings, people gather at bars such as Salhane, a former abattoir painted a hue of lemon-yellow that faces both sea and castle, to enjoy glasses of local wine or a few cocktails.
  — CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• Nades worked at the local abattoir and volunteered at a welfare services society, St. Vincent de Paul.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• The abattoir in Baringo has been running for almost two years, slaughtering hundreds of donkeys a day to satisfy Chinese demand.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• Few River Forest residents would be happy to know their neighbors were operating an abattoir in the back yard.
  — Paul Sassone, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
• Would a vegan commune be happy about building an abattoir?
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• The cosmos, often portrayed as beautiful and beguiling, is here a ghoulish abattoir.
  — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 22 May 2017
• An abattoir in the north of the country has halted slaughtering, and nearby schools were closed, after 650 meat processing workers tested positive.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 18 June 2020
• All four Kenyan abattoirs are now mandated to transform their donkey slaughterhouses within 60 days to handle cows, sheep and chickens, Munya said.
  — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
• And an abattoir in Scotland that slaughters about 60 percent of the pigs there has transported some of its animals to locations in neighboring England because the company had run out of carbon dioxide.
  — Amie Tsang, New York Times, 29 June 2018
• Back then on Fulton, actual meatpackers, not the glossy magazine-friendly Publican Quality Meats butchers, hosed down the sidewalks in front of their abattoirs.
  — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017

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