BUTCHER in a Sentence
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53 example sentences for BUTCHER, such as:
1. He is a butcher by trade.
2. I meet the butcher by appointment.
3. One butcher does not fear many sheep.
4. For these sufficient reasons I resolve to fight the butcher.
5. In a moment the butcher lights ten thousand candles out of my left eyebrow.
2. I meet the butcher by appointment.
3. One butcher does not fear many sheep.
4. For these sufficient reasons I resolve to fight the butcher.
5. In a moment the butcher lights ten thousand candles out of my left eyebrow.
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Meanings and Examples of BUTCHER
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butcher
n. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
n. a retailer of meat
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 The shade of a young butcher rises, like the apparition of an armed head in Macbeth.
2 He is a broad-faced, bull-necked, young butcher, with rough red cheeks, an ill-conditioned mind, and an injurious tongue.
3 For these sufficient reasons I resolve to fight the butcher.
4 I meet the butcher by appointment.
5 I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep.
6 The preliminaries are adjusted, and the butcher and myself stand face to face.
7 In a moment the butcher lights ten thousand candles out of my left eyebrow.
8 I hardly know which is myself and which the butcher, we are always in such a tangle and tussle, knocking about upon the trodden grass.
9 Being, by that time, rather tired of this kind of life, and having received new provocation from the butcher, I throw the flower away, go out with the butcher, and gloriously defeat him.
10 I was so softened and forgiving, going through the town, that I had half a mind to nod to my old enemy the butcher, and throw him five shillings to drink.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
11 His deportment would have been fierce in a butcher or a brandy-merchant.
12 Among those who were stirring in the shops, I saw my ancient enemy the butcher, now advanced to top-boots and a baby, and in business for himself.
13 "I won't," he finally managed to breathe, never dreaming that she was thinking he looked like a calf waiting for the butcher.
14 The butcher shops carried almost no beef and very little mutton, and that mutton cost so much only the rich could afford it.
15 Grant was a butcher who did not care how many men he slaughtered for a victory, but victory he would have.
Example Sentence:
1 He is a butcher by trade.
2 One butcher does not fear many sheep.
3 Milosevic, a very controversial figure, a man often called the butcher of the Balkans by his critics, was found dead at his cell in a U.N. detention center.