kill
Example Sentences
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It begins: “And after all the weather was ideal,” plunging the reader headfirst into the collision between preparations for a party and funeral preparations for a young man killed in an accident.
“If you know that, what good is it to kill the Immortal?” said Nighthand.
From Literature
“She disappeared in Poland, just as Hitler attacked. The American embassy is fairly certain she was killed. But there was never a funeral.”
From Literature
While no US personnel were killed, dozens later reported traumatic brain injuries.
From BBC
The race in Crans-Montana -- the site of a deadly fire a month ago that killed 40 young people and injured 116 -- was set to be the last before the Games start on February 6.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
