Why send an army to inevitable slaughter beyond mountain frontiers in a vain struggle for the wilderness of the Indians when the colonies then possessed more domain than the citizens of the Republic would ever be able to use?
In that year Colonel Steptoe, seeking to lead a detachment to garrison the post of the Hudson Bay Company at Colville, near the British border, was defeated with great slaughter by the Spokanes.
They were said to have disputed the field manfully, but were at length completely routed, and a merciless slaughter was exercised on the fugitives, of whom betwixt two and three hundred fell on the field and in the pursuit.
Lothair asked some of his neighbors to dinner, and he made two large parties to slaughter his grouse.
He begins to calculate what a slaughter there must have been of calves to furnish skins of exactly the same shade of brown for the four hundred thousand infantry of the Italian army.
The satisfaction made for the slaughter of any man, according to his rank.
The mulct to be paid to survivors for the sudden slaughter of a relative.
Devonshire was not spared by them, and the cliffs of Teignmouth are said to be blood-red since a great slaughter of the Danes in 970.
A hunter of those wolves, upon the shore Of the fierce stream, and cows them all with dread: Their flesh yet living sets he up to sale, Then like an aged beast to slaughter dooms.
Alberic pretended to be at war with his brother Eccelino, so as to do his evil deeds more safely; and he did not hold his hand from the slaughter of citizens and subjects.
One need not recount how the disputes of the Athanasian time regarding the nature of Christ came to express themselves in curses; nor how the Christian sword began its slaughter of heretic and heathen.
Whatever Marius and Julius wrought with theslaughter of soldiers, thou dost with thy small voice.
Since knighthood's ideals took form in crusading times, the slaughter of the Paynim became the supreme act of knightly warfare.
Sir Richard thus ouermatched, was sent vnto by Alfonso Baçan to remooue out of the Reuenge, the shippe being marueilous vnsauorie, filled with blood and bodies of dead, and wounded men like a slaughter house.
We made our beds by spreading mats and blankets under us; and then, closing the curtain of the tent, Mr. MacMurray began a very effective slaughter and expulsion of the mosquitoes.
At night time the townspeople appear on the scene in boats with lanterns and spears, and for no other purpose than the mere love of useless slaughter kill the fish till their arms are exhausted.
The regulations respecting the cleanliness of the slaughter houses and the shambles were very long and very severe.
The slaughter of the Old Gambrel-roofed House was, I am ready to admit, a case of justifiable domicide.
Then after a pause he asked reflectively: "But why should one go toslaughter houses, why should one hear hogs squeal?
Startled by this idea, the men of the various countries have sought for a means for stopping or at least mitigating the consequences of the terrible slaughter which is menacing us.
As it is possible to increase the means for the slaughter of men, so it is possible to increase the means for subjugating the men of the social concept of life.
The same slaughter of the infants is commanded by Herod, in order to destroy Christ, that Pharaoh had ordered to effect the destruction of Moses.
And still more logically ruinous to the credit of the story is the omission of Josephus to throw out one hint that such a wholesale slaughter ever took place in Judea.
It was his bravery and presence of mind that prevented the ignominious slaughter of hundreds of defenseless men by a mob of armed cowards, who stood there awaiting the signal from Colonel Moss to "Blow them into eternity.
And the Lord discomfited them before Israel and slew them with great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon and smote them to Azekah and unto Makkedah.
Certain Negroes and white men had been listed for slaughter and banishment.
The plans for the slaughter of November 10th had been carefully laid.
The slaughter of Germans increased until the approaches were dotted with bodies of the enemy slain.
The roads were blocked for miles with their transportation, and when the American artillery turned its attention to these thoroughfares, crowded with confused Germans, the slaughter was terrific.
The news of the bombardment of Scarborough, the wholesale slaughter of women and children, which has just come through, must be greatly gratifying to the Germans!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slaughter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
