killing
Example Sentences
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The Sunday morning after Pretti’s killing, police cars were still positioned to stop traffic at both ends of the block.
Activists say that the actual toll could be many times higher with an internet shutdown still complicating efforts to confirm information about the scale of the killings.
From Barron's
Their deaths come as a deadly winter storm hit a wide swathe of the US, including Texas, over the last week, killing more than 20 people and leaving several thousands without power.
From BBC
Australian authorities have sparked a backlash by killing a group of dingoes linked to the death of a young Canadian woman on an island in the country's east.
From Barron's
His killing sparked another wave of protests in Minneapolis and ignited bipartisan scrutiny of the government’s immigration-enforcement campaign there.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
