slaying
Example Sentences
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I wouldn’t hang Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” in the living room, but I could stare at Janina Baranowska’s “Actaeon Devoured by His Hounds” every evening over dinner.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023
In the interview, Mike talks with public education advocate Diane Ravitch about her most recent book, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools.
From Slate • Feb. 5, 2020
Rachel Held Evans is the best-selling author of four books, most recently “Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2018
Team orders rule these days making epic duels like that between team mates LeMond and French great Bernard Hinault on Alpe d'huez in 1986, chronicled in the book Slaying the Badger, rare.
From Reuters • Jun. 15, 2017
I walk over to my favorite painting, Judith Slaying Holofernes.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
