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Six example sentences with butcher, each labelled with its topic.
Ask the butcher for the shoulder rather than the loin, since the cheaper cut rewards four hours of braising.
Cooking
The village butcher survived the supermarket by delivering weekly boxes and sourcing every animal from farms nearby.
Business
Every market street had a butcher, a baker and a stall of pickles, all shouting prices at once.
Travel
Medieval London confined every butcher to a single street so that the smell and the waste stayed in one quarter.
History
Aertsen's 1551 painting fills the foreground with a butcher's stall so crowded that the religious scene hides in the background.
Art
In the nursery rhyme the butcher shares a tub with the baker and the candlestick maker, three trades every village needed.
Literature
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