Examples of shoot to kill in a Sentence
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The season opens with the revelation that Player 246, a.k.a single dad Gyeong-seok, didn’t die in the rebellion; pink soldier No-eul didn’t shoot to kill.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025
And even when the distressed person threatens them with a weapon, police don’t always shoot to kill; in the case of Faisal, an officer fired only after a nonlethal sponge round failed to slow him.
—Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
Another military intervention by Moscow in another former Soviet state with clear echoes of the Cold War. Bolstered by the Kremlin, the president's regained a fragile control, ordering his forces to shoot to kill.
—ABC News, 9 Jan. 2022
The act grants soldiers wide-ranging powers to search, detain, arrest or shoot to kill people and gives them immunity from prosecution unless the government makes an exception, which rarely occurs.
—Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
Shoot to kill, see an antifa, shoot to kill.
—Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2022
They are trained to shoot to kill.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 7 July 2022
But now, primarily through crowdsourcing, human rights groups and activists are beginning to document a reign of terror that got underway well before the shoot to kill order.
—New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
The order now are shoot to kill.
—ABC News, 9 Jan. 2022
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025
And even when the distressed person threatens them with a weapon, police don’t always shoot to kill; in the case of Faisal, an officer fired only after a nonlethal sponge round failed to slow him.
—Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
Another military intervention by Moscow in another former Soviet state with clear echoes of the Cold War. Bolstered by the Kremlin, the president's regained a fragile control, ordering his forces to shoot to kill.
—ABC News, 9 Jan. 2022
The act grants soldiers wide-ranging powers to search, detain, arrest or shoot to kill people and gives them immunity from prosecution unless the government makes an exception, which rarely occurs.
—Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
Shoot to kill, see an antifa, shoot to kill.
—Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2022
They are trained to shoot to kill.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 7 July 2022
But now, primarily through crowdsourcing, human rights groups and activists are beginning to document a reign of terror that got underway well before the shoot to kill order.
—New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
The order now are shoot to kill.
—ABC News, 9 Jan. 2022
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“Shoot to kill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20to%20kill. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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