How to Use butchery in a Sentence
butchery
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Many people have no idea of the scope of this butchery.
—WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
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All of the butchery and roasting is being done in-house.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024
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Over the course of the weekend in Gazelle, guests receive hands-on lessons in butchery and open-fire grilling.
—Matt Villano, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
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Or gathering a group of friends for a day of beef butchery.
—Vogue, 21 June 2018
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Still, the outcast lovers feast on human body parts, a butchery the film does not shy away from.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
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Food will be a mixed lot — in-house butchery will yield cuts to be cooked on black rock and Himalayan salt blocks.
—Michael Klein, Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
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Lady of the House chef Kate Williams describes the butchery at her restaurant.
—Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2018
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The song lyrics feature sailors harpooning a whale and hoisting it to the ship for butchery.
—New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
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When that kind of butchery is done by weapons purchased legally, clearly the laws need to change.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
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The first floor was once used as a convenience store and butchery (the walk-in cooler has been preserved).
—Christianna McCausland, baltimoresun.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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When employees of the butchery finally did wrestle the calf the ground, Badr Musaed, who works in the shop, cut its throat.
—Washington Post, 30 July 2019
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Butchers at work in 1928 at the Loch Bros. butchery in Emerald, Australia.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2011
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Many films, video games, comics and media cash in on the market for fantasy butchery.
—WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
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The chef there was European and taught me everything from butchery and carving to how to make soups, stocks, sauces.
—Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities, 24 July 2019
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There’s not as big of a demand for butchery; people today would rather have their meat pre-sliced and packaged.
—Clarissa Wei, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
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An attached butchery and sandwich shop will stay open through Jan. 7, with discounts on grocery goods and cuts of meat.
—Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
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Butcher’s Plate, which is doing all of its butchery and cooking in-house, held its grand opening on Jan. 6.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2024
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The stall is the first commercial farming and butchery operation found in the southwest of Britain.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2019
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About 40 percent of the human bones found in the cave have bite marks on them, while 60 percent show some signs of butchery activities.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
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What now passes for the law in Xaltianguis, a little town on the road to Acapulco, arrived with a car bomb and butchery.
—Washington Post, 22 June 2019
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The level of butchery linked the killings to a series of unsolved homicides that began eight years earlier.
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 June 2017
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Meanwhile, the Sistrunk food hall will serve schnitzels, beer brats, Bavarian pretzels and apple strudels from butchery Chop Shoppe.
—Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2021
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Mr Assad’s survival is a lesson in the use of butchery, the rivalries of his foes and the emptiness of Western pronouncements.
—The Economist, 30 June 2018
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To create it, staff take advantage of the in-house whole animal butchery program to use any leftover trim and bits.
—Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
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The new finds, reported in the journal Nature, include stone tools, bones with signs of butchery, and ostrich eggshell fragments.
—Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2021
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The restaurant would incorporate a seafood market and butchery, Smith, who owns Atlas, said in an email.
—Sarah Meehan, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2017
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This Ukrainian town, not far from the capital, Kyiv, is where the war’s worst atrocities have been discovered, and as the days pass the full scope of the terror and butchery only grows.
—New York Times, 2 May 2022
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Though the site may have once been a fruitful hunting ground, researchers found no stone tools or animal bones bearing the telltale marks of butchery.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
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Of course, genocide is a charged and redolent term, recalling the systematic precision of the Holocaust and the society-wide butchery of the Rwandan genocide.
—Kristina Hook, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2022
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The tasting menu prepares ingredients thoughtfully, switching between whole fish butchery, fermenting, smoking, and curing keeping in line with a nose-to-tail, zero-waste ethos.
—Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024
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