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present tense third-person singular of kill
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kills

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noun

plural of kill

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of kills
Verb
Pugh then scored on back-to-back kills later in the set, scored on a block and scored on a kill for the final point of the set. Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025 Harris had two kills during a 5-1 run that closed out the first game and a kill, block and ace during a comeback in the second game. Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
Williams' new movie Regretting You is based on author Colleen Hoover's 2019 novel; Williams and Mckenna Grace costar as mother-daughter duo Morgan and Clara, whose relationship is tested after a car accident kills both Clara's father (Scott Eastwood) and Morgan's sister Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald). Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025 Tim Robbins’s turn as a smarmy film executive who kills a screenwriter skewers the movie industry with a wink and a nod. Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025 Across the world, for all military battles where such data is available, the average army kills nine enemy non-combatants for every fighter killed. Oded J K Faran, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025 Chemically, the lactic acids in milk gently remove dull skin while honey kills bacteria and seals in hydration. Essence, 21 Oct. 2025 Listeria infects 1,250 people in the United States each year, according to the CDC, and kills about 172. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025 Nothing kills an outfit faster than a rigid denim waistband digging into your sides or linen trousers wrinkling at the first sign of sitting. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025 Echinacea is not an antibiotic that directly kills pathogens. Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2025 Nothing kills his confidence, Turner thought. Jay King, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kills
Verb
  • Each participant had lost central vision in one eye due to dry AMD, which destroys light-sensitive macular cells over time.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • An arson fire destroys the 43-year-old Globe Theatre on March 8 (the arsonist was never caught, but a firebug had set several blazes in the park that winter).
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The anti-American side focuses exclusively on the tragedies, usually makes slavery the chief argument for the prosecution, and dismisses the triumphs as hypocritical rhetoric.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Some critics have interpreted the ending as a glib last-minute twist that threatens to neutralize the story’s potency and dismisses the seriousness of the movie’s premise.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In contrast, lossy audio is a compressed file format that deletes some of the original audio information.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • BuzzFeed deletes the post and makes an attempt at an apology that gets deleted quickly.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Greenwich Village still wears its history like a second skin, every street a pulse of old New York.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • With one of largest concentrations of military bases in the country (each year, nearly 40,000 military trainees call it home), San Antonio wears its 300-year military legacy with pride.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • It’s set in the early 80s, which is a period that fascinates me.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Ange Postecoglou fascinates me.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The heat from the water also deactivates enzymes that break down pigments.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The study, the first of its kind locally, was conducted by Sojourner Family Peace Center in Milwaukee, the state's largest advocacy organization for victims of domestic violence.
    Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Starring in one of the series’ most enduring scenes, Corcoran, who plays Dawn as one of Art’s first on-screen victims, was hung upside down by her ankles.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But when the woman takes it home and hand-washes it, strange things happen.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Both jeans are available in Mott & Bow’s Mercer, Gilmore and Hubert fabrics and in a variety of dark to light indigo washes.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025

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