The earliest of Egyptian rock-sculptures is engraved in the peninsula, and represents Snefru, the founder of the fourth dynasty, slaughtering the Beduin who inhabited it.
We find the Pharaohs of the third dynasty already establishing their garrisons and colonies of miners in the province of Mafkat, as they called it, and slaughtering the Beduin who interfered with them.
We sappers, too, had to participate in the cold-blooded slaughtering of defenseless men.
That business of slaughtering and working had become an every day affair.
We have been collecting the cattle and placing them below, in order to stop the slaughtering that has been carried on above.
What is the good of thy slaughtering these troopers?
And beholding the enemy slaughtering his troops, the Rakshasa king, Ravana, possessed of great powers of illusion, began to put them forth.
It is true we have rescued her after slaughtering the troops of Sindhu.
But Arjuna perceiving that Jayadratha had run away exhorted his brother to refrain fromslaughtering the remnant of the Saindhava host.
On the practice observed by the Mohammadans in slaughtering animals, the reviewer displays a vast deal of erudition, and quotes the treatise of Mr Lane, on the "Manners of the Modern Egyptians.
Thus the Aino hopes to profit in various ways by slaughtering the creatures, which, nevertheless, he treats as divine.
The chief object of the Indians in thus slaughtering so large a number of buffalo is to lay in a store of their flesh, which they preserve and call pemmican.
These creatures, says the King, were without moral sense, glorying in their power, and slaughteringthose whom they took captives.
The sheep selected for sacrifice must be without blemish, and the manner of slaughtering it and the examination of its liver must be made with the most meticulous care.
In all my experience in the Western wilds I never saw such a slaughtering as there.
Connor for slaughtering the Indians in the manner he had, when they (the Mormons) had planned the slaughter, although not meaning for it to be a slaughter of Indians.
It was her presence aboard that touched the man-slaughtering Etna with her quality of the macabre.
He was always slopping over his borders with a handful of fighting men and burning and slaughtering and raping among the peaceful kraals.
Slaughtering a herd of cattle affected with foot-and-mouth disease.
The occupation of a fisherman, and, indeed, any occupation which involved the sin of slaughtering animals, was considered despicable.
So, here is a monster who thought as little about slaughtering me as if I had been a bullock for sacrifice, and you must e'en greet him with a welcome.
No sooner were the men in blue beyond the fence than they got into line, and met the Confederates, as they came crowding behind, with a slaughtering fire, and then charged, driving them back.
Iphigenia broods on her wrongs till she can see nothing else; she feels as if she hated all Greeks, and lived only for revenge, for the hope of some day slaughtering Greeks at her altar, as pitilessly as they slaughtered her at Aulis.
One feels rather sorry for Thoas, certainly, and he is a very fine fellow in his way; but a person who insists on slaughtering strangers cannot expect those strangers or their friends to treat him with any approach to candour.
While the men of Notho sat passive in their huts, they ran riot through the village, tearing down the cocoanuts and plantains, rifling the yam stores, and slaughtering every pig and fowl that did not escape by flight.
An order was accordingly issued against slaughtering dogs or taking life in any form, the result being that all wild animals multiplied enormously and wrought great damage to crops.
But Nobunaga, disregarding this promise, put the Hatano brothers to the sword, and the latter's adherents avenged themselves by slaughtering Mitsuhide's mother.
Lawlessness and anarchy were universal: the Maori tribes were slaughtering one another; the white man was slaughtering the Maori tribes.
Then they went to meet death willingly, some letting themselves be pierced by the swords of the Romans, some slaughtering one another, others committing suicide, and others leaping into the blaze.
Demetrius even now would not yield, and Vespasian bade it be told him: "You are working every way to have me kill you, but I am not slaughtering barking dogs.
When Ra saw the beer he approved of it, and ordered it to be carried up the river to where the goddess Hathor was still, it seems, engaged in slaughtering men.
The odour which is in his chamber of slaughter is in thy members, and thy form shall be overthrown by the slaughteringknife of the great god.
Then he rushed through them and under them and over them, like a wolf among sheep, or a hawk among sparrows, cleaving and slaughtering them, till only a few were left, who hardly escaped to their ships.
The cavalry under Custer were sent on their flank, driving them pell mell across Cedar Creek, slaughtering them like sheep.
Because he would not aid in bringing civil war, and aid in slaughtering thousands of innocent men, he was for three months confined in Libby Prison by the rebel leader, his daughter sharing his confinement with him without a murmur.
The flesh required for the sacrifice is found by slaughtering a sheep or a goat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slaughtering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
