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Meanings of shambles in English
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Examples for "butchery"
Examples for "butchery"
1
Of course, with the butchery, my hand is often tired these days.
2
The Belgians in vain interposed to prevent the butchery of the English.
3
Somehow Jacket managed to be right in the middle of the butchery.
4
An inhuman butchery of the children and some of the women followed.
5
All the martyrs were now brought to the place of their butchery.
1
The slaughterhouse produces meat exclusively for the local market in Amazonas State.
2
I'm goin' to go home with you when we leave the slaughterhouse.
3
Nor does she focus on the slaughterhouse aspect of our food cycle.
4
The firm has been running a slaughterhouse for the past 50 years.
5
At short range, they could transform a crowded deck into a slaughterhouse.
1
This morning, police have broken up a protest at a Queensland abattoir.
2
According to the statement, the abattoir in Clayville had resumed regular operations.
3
These days Harris Meats is an independent abattoir and meat processing… Audio
4
The cluster of cases from the Cedar Meats abattoir has reached 75.
5
This morning, police also broke up a protest at a Queensland abattoir.
1
Those were savage times when this old slaughter-house was in its prime.
2
It was the smell of death and horror, like some gigantic slaughter-house.
3
The place was a slaughter-house; never have I seen so ghastly a sight.
4
Between two and three he was going to the slaughter-house for the meat.
5
Here is an excellent flock for the slaughter-house of the Carabi.
Usage of shambles in English
1
The state of opposition politics and democracy is in a shambles too.
2
Mr Woodhouse said: It just shows what a shambles this thing is.
3
Shortly after the deal closed, the subprime housing market fell into shambles.
4
On this day in 1985, the American videogame market was in shambles.
5
In a little the poor beast rises, and shambles out lurching queerly.
6
Here, then, we have the construction of the Abyss and the shambles.
7
In Durban South Africa were a shambles on the field and off.
8
He say these show the finance and accounting system was in shambles.
9
It was a terrible sight, and the room looked like a shambles.
10
At Jarnac he had been the last to turn from the shambles.
11
The destruction of this shell-fire is making a shambles of human bodies.
12
By nightfall, they would be stopped outside the radioactive shambles of Jacksonville.
13
And the Pod was battered and bent, the control panel a shambles.
14
The rest were driven, like sheep for the shambles, to life-long slavery.
15
Finally, I cannot drive away from my thought the shambles of Europe.
16
This resulted in a shambles that would have confused Herbert Yardley himself.
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