How to Use butcher in a Sentence

butcher

1 of 2 noun

• My mom used to get the worst bits of meat from the butcher.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2022
• First the chicken livers that the butcher gave me were dry.
  — Glenn Rifkin, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Then tie two more butcher’s knots in the center of each side.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
• Many butchers will also shave meat for you on the slicer behind the counter.
  — Hana Asbrink, Bon Appétit, 21 Sep. 2023
• They were beheaded and hanged from the meat hooks of butcher shops.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2023
• The name is a nod to his first daughter Madelynn (the beauty) and himself (the butcher).
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2022
• Three ladders with upturned butcher knives for rungs led to the ground.
  — Kate Guadagnino, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• Every last épicerie in Paris makes this, and so do many butcher shops in the United States.
  — Jordan Michelman, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
• The daughter of a butcher, Kariko was born in 1955 and grew up in a small town in eastern Hungary.
  — Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• When buying duck, ask your butcher for Pekin or a Pekin hybrid like the Moulard.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• They are sold in Asian markets and elsewhere; check with your butcher.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• If yours doesn't, use cotton twine (ask your butcher for some).
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
• During the search a man armed with a butcher knife appeared in front of a police cruiser.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• After searching the perimeter of the home, police found a butcher knife in the backyard, along with blood and drag marks.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
• The man drew a foot-long butcher knife, the Sheriff’s Department said, and tried to throw it at the officers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• Capital Grille will serve steaks that are dry-aged in-restaurant and hand-cut by the in-house butcher.
  — The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2023
• David continues to stalk her, his own butcher knife in hand.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• There were also about eight or nine bakeries and about 10 butcher shops.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• Her father joined with one of his brothers to run a butcher shop, where her mother pitched in part-time.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• Thank you for sending it to your friends, your coworkers, and your butcher.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
• When the shots rang out, the young soccer player was in line at a butcher’s shop in an Arab town in northern Israel.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• What’s missing, says a butcher at one of the vast markets here, is the education of the public.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
• It was concealed, speakeasy-style, behind a butcher shop.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• Fritz worked as a butcher in Hollywood and passed away 10 years ago, and his brother lived in the house until a few years ago.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• Voss said many of the restaurant’s customers were fans of the butcher shop from Baltimore County.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
• If a baby had been born alive at 30 weeks and was drowned, or had her throat slit with a butcher knife, that would be an act of murder in all 50 states.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 21 July 2023
• Her dad, Ricardo, picks up pounds of pork from a butcher in the neighborhood.
  — Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• The morning after the murder, the butcher shop was busy with customers and there was no sign of the execution of the day before.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• At least four of these butcher shops have been documented, researchers said.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
• The origins of Unilever’s ice cream business can be traced back to the summer of 1913, when Thomas Wall started selling ice cream from his family butcher shop in London.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024

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butcher

2 of 2 verb

• The band has butchered my favorite song.
• They've hired someone to butcher the hogs.
• Many innocent people were butchered under his regime.
• To help meet that goal, Jensen plans to butcher some of his cows and sell the meat.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• But even the short version of her name, Katya, has been butchered.
  — Marian Chia-Ming Liu, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• Many of the bones seem to bear the marks of butchering by tool-wielding hominins.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2018
• The Celtics called time, but failed to get a shot off, butchering two in-bounds plays in the final seconds.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• The Townsends grow most of their own vegetables and butcher their meat.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• There are instructions on how not to just cook a duck, but how to raise it and butcher it.
  — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
• But the chicken in Bowman’s pan was grown in a bioreactor, not butchered from a bird.
  — John Birdsall, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
• On the first day, the family butchered the whale and divided the meat into two piles.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• A month before the pageant, her mother hired a teacher to show her how to butcher.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• The restaurant's name, by the way, comes from the birch trees outside the restaurant off N. Water St. and from the butchering done inside.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018
• And God help the prideful actor who would dare butcher the work of William Shakespeare in front of him.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• In any case, devotees said the movie failed to capture the series’s soul and butchered the sprawling story.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
• The site holds the remains of a number of large animals like elephants, as well as the stone tools used to butcher them.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2023
• The photo was taken after it was said to have butchered a German shepherd and a pit bull.
  — Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
• The museum is locked, and Senhor Filipe, who holds the key, is busy butchering a pig.
  — Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
• Songs are butchered, with an inexcusable amount of bum notes and out-of-step harmonies.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 10 June 2019
• Bastianich approved of the filet James had cut after butchering the fish.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
• Before butchering a snapper, the men take them home and put them in a tub of fresh water for a week or longer to flush out at least some of the wild funk.
  — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2019
• Some of the stores that carried the product butchered the packaging, costing him time and money.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2020
• The affair was in full-swing, and Ariana and Raquel were in the front row dancing side by side to him butchering classic songs.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
• The warriors butchered the people and used the heads of Lewis’s kinsmen as decoration for their belts.
  — Emily Bernard, The New Republic, 19 June 2018
• The majority of the cut marks on the seal bones suggest the animals were butchered for their meat, rather than simply skinned.
  — Ian Randall, Science | AAAS, 14 Feb. 2020
• These animals were butchered and eaten, and their bones were used to make a variety of tools.
  — William Taylor, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2020
• Another way to produce more cheap meat is to butcher the birds faster.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 9 Dec. 2022
• Back then, her stepfather bought live hogs from the stockyard and slaughtered and butchered them himself.
  — Bob Carlton, AL.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• And downstairs, the chef has built an actual meat palace, where all his dry-aging and butchering takes place.
  — Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 9 May 2018
• Some animals were butchered, and those pig or chicken parts may have been food offerings.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024