How to Use slaughterhouse in a Sentence

slaughterhouse

noun

• Joris had shown Sam a video on his phone one night, a pig in a slaughterhouse.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• The bull had escaped a truck bound for a slaughterhouse.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Don’t even ask about the town zoo, the slaughterhouse, the topiary maze.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• Stewie was taken back to the slaughterhouse, where his fate seemed sealed.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2023
• Witnessing the birth tugged at the heartstrings of the slaughterhouse owner—and not for the first time.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2020
• The letter reported the death of the Alabama cow on the way to the slaughterhouse.
  — Special To Al.com, AL.com, 27 Aug. 2017
• Many neighbors of the Vernon slaughterhouse are glad to be free of its stench.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• If this was some kind of escape from the slaughterhouse, the story might just be the … greatest of all time.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2023
• The last three horse slaughterhouses — two in Texas and one in Illinois — were closed in 2007.
  — Erin Kelly, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2018
• In some cases, the animals then get sold, which can put them on a path to the slaughterhouse.
  — Mark Scaglione, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Where the goats came from is unclear, though there are a number of slaughterhouses in the area where they were found.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
• At high noon on an early-spring day in 2017, six steers doomed to die escaped their slaughterhouse and stormed the streets of my city.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
• On a drive back from Vegas, she was stuck next to a 16-wheeler of pigs headed to a slaughterhouse.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 28 Sep. 2017
• Henry the Hatter's new building dates to the early 1920s and for decades was a slaughterhouse.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2017
• Kind of like at a slaughterhouse except on a much smaller scale.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• Near the casino, 26 tigers stalked the length of their enclosure, destined for the slaughterhouse.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• Roebuck worked as a bricklayer, in a steel mill, and in a vast and fragrant slaughterhouse that was known in town as the House of Blood.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Grungier than a big-city back alley and more guts-strewn than a slaughterhouse.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022
• Instead of being sent back to the Pico Rivera slaughterhouse with the others, this one was spared.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• And the movie, about the family life of a man who works in a Watts slaughterhouse, is about the brutal effects of the food system, not quite about food.
  — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• Before then, most cattle grazed on the range and were brought to slaughterhouses each fall.
  — Sam Brasch, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• DxE’s footage isn’t the first time that the inside of a slaughterhouse’s CO2 stunning chamber has been captured on video.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023
• The old slaughterhouse has served as a temporary mosque for the past 21 years for many Muslims in Angers, a city in western France.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• In February, a bull ran away from a Queens slaughterhouse and led police on a 2-mile chase.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• Dozens of horses wander the ranch; most are rescues, adopted so they wouldn’t be sent to the slaughterhouse.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• All the major studios wanted to cut the slaughterhouse scene.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 26 Jan. 2018
• The horses that hadn’t been sold were being loaded onto a truck, bound for the slaughterhouse.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2021
• Esther cannot help but follow the young man into the slaughterhouse.
  — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• Zoning began as a mechanism to prevent nursery schools next to slaughterhouses.
  — Joshua Stein, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• And that investigation of child labor in slaughterhouses?
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024