slayings

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How to use slayings in a sentence

  • Police are not ruling out that Franklin may be responsible for even more slayings.

    Grim Sleeper Case's New Bodies | Christine Pelisek | November 3, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Police have long thought that Franklin was involved in additional slayings.

    Grim Sleeper Case's New Bodies | Christine Pelisek | November 3, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • All his life he has been rough, impatient of control, and at home only amid struggles and slayings.

  • As a matter of fact there are more slayings over strained friendships than over the acquisition of gold.

    Bulldog Carney | W. A. Fraser
  • The happy awakenings of eternity must outsoar the shadow of our night, its slayings and its vulgar patriotisms.

    Windfalls | (AKA Alpha of the Plough) Alfred George Gardiner
  • She was a glittering sword of a woman whose slayings fascinated me.

    The Belovd Vagabond | William J. Locke
  • He gave Kari a most hearty welcome, and Kari told him of all the tidings that had happened in these slayings.

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