be killed
Example Sentences
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For months, Chinese social-media users have been buzzing about the U.S. “kill line,” a phrase used in videogames to describe the point at which a character can be killed with a single blow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Shari and I were kind of hoping that we were going to come out of that meeting with the news that the show was going to be killed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
But Trump gave no names, saying: "I don't want him to be killed."
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
When he got the news that he would not be killed, he collapsed to the ground.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
His experiments showed that these germs could be killed by heat or particular chemicals.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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