Examples of killing in a Sentence

Noun The oil spill is responsible for the killing of thousands of birds. Adjective he's usually quiet, but occasionally unleashes some killing remark that cracks everyone up a killing schedule that requires the touring company to play in a different city every night

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The killing was one of two over the weekend in Birmingham. — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 25 Apr. 2022 Henry Douglas Horsley, Curtis, and other family members all believe Craig’s killing was unjustified, yet their story has largely gone unheard. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2022 An inmate told an investigator with the Mississippi Department of Corrections, or MDOC, that the killing was gang related. — Jerry Mitchell, ProPublica, 21 Apr. 2022 The state attorney general ruled the killing was justified. — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022 The footage went viral on Weibo, with many noting that the killing was cruel and unnecessary. — Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2022 The killing is offscreen, but the footage of people being rounded up for execution and the testimony from war-crime tribunals years later are shocking and compelling. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2022 The killing of his friend Brandon was only one of many in his life. — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022 The deliberate killing of civilians may be a way to win, but armies fighting justly are required to look for other ways (there are other ways). — Michael Walzer, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The anti-trapping, anti-killing anything movement has also taken a toll. — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022 For the few pests that do show up, first spray with non-killing repellents such as garlic and garlic pepper tea. — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 26 July 2021 And Morgan put an end to his non-killing ways by chopping off the head of his bounty-hunting pursuer — stealing his axe and hat in the process. — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2020 The killing spree began in the cottage community of Portapique where Mr. Wortman owned several properties. — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020 The problem at hand is the novel coronavirus, and U.S. sanctions are aiding its killing spree in Iran. — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 18 Mar. 2020 In 2014, his daughter, Alex, was at the University of California, Santa Barbara when a gunman on a killing spree fatally shot three women outside her sorority house. — James Barragán, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020 Keenan was the New York Police Department’s Chief of Detectives during the killing spree, which terrified the city in 1976 and 1977 as an unknown gunman stalked his victims with a .44 caliber handgun, killing six and wounding seven others. — Michael R. Sisak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019 Police reports, witness statements and dispatch logs shared earlier have provided more detail about the confusion and heroism as the concert venue became a killing field. — Ken Ritter, Fox News, 13 June 2018 See More

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