Sentence examples for killed from high-quality English sources.

  • Tuberculosis also killed 460 people in Britain that year.

  • The identities of the two men killed in San Antonio are unknown.

  • That year, 46 retail-sales workers were killed, most of them cashiers.

  • Others were kidnapped for ransom and killed when their relatives were not able to pay up.

Use killed in a sentence.

  • Weeks later, on 14 June, around 20 soldiers and 40 civilians were killed by the same group.

  • The shooting came six days after a gunman killed three people at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif.

  • In 2014, 28-year-old Alex Nieto was killed by San Francisco police while he ate a burrito on a hilltop park.

  • Our loss in this engagement was: McPherson, 37 killed, 228 wounded; Sherman, 4 killed and 21 wounded and missing.

  • "All badgers killed as part of the pilot culls have been shot cleanly and killed instantly," a tweet by the department said.

  • Rittenhouse declared that if Rosenbaum had taken the rifle “he would have used it, and killed me with it, and probably killed more people.”

  • About 43,500 Spanish troops were killed or wounded or went missing during the war; Spain’s ally France counted about 18,000 as killed, wounded, or missing.

  • In February, Niger announced that 120 militants had been killed, and the French military recently announced that an additional 50 were killed in Central Mali.

killed sentence examples

  • Barr cited statistics compiled by The Washington Post to compare the number of unarmed Black men killed by the police (eight) to the number of unarmed white men killed by the police (11) this year.

  • Dugin has referred to a segment of the Ukrainian people as a “race of bastards that emerged from the sewer manholes”, called for their “genocide”, and exhorted that those Ukrainians must be “killed, killed, and killed”.

  • The attack spanned across the region: A student, three teachers, and two other individuals were killed in Idlib city; six students and four others were killed in Maarat Misrin; and four more people were killed in Binnish, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the BBC.

  • Family members of young men who had been killed in recent years in L.A. told their stories: Fouzia Almarou, whose son Kenneth Ross Jr. was shot and killed by police in Gardena in 2018, said, “I can’t sleep at night”; a man told the story of how his brother Anthony Weber was killed in South L.A. after a Super Bowl party in 2018; Another woman held a velvet box with the ashes of her son, killed by law enforcement.

killed


  • verb contact

    - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly

    Example: This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank


  • noun act

    - the act of terminating a life


  • noun act

    - the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile


  • verb social

    - thwart the passage of


  • verb change

    - end or extinguish by forceful means


  • noun animal

    - the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal


  • verb stative

    - be fatal


  • verb perception

    - be the source of great pain for


  • verb emotion

    - overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration


  • verb contact

    - hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games

    Example: She killed the ball


  • verb contact

    - hit with great force

    Example: He killed the ball


  • verb contact

    - deprive of life

    Example: AIDS has killed thousands in Africa


  • verb contact

    - cause the death of, without intention

    Example: She was killed in the collision of three cars


  • verb consumption

    - drink down entirely


  • verb change

    - mark for deletion, rub off, or erase


  • verb change

    - tire out completely


  • verb change

    - cause to cease operating


  • verb change

    - destroy a vitally essential quality of or in


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  • 2 sentence examples for killed from Independent
  • 5 sentence examples for killed from New York Times
  • 1 sentence examples for killed from Los Angeles Times
  • 2 sentence examples for killed from The New Yorker
  • 1 sentence examples for killed from The Economist
  • 3 sentence examples for killed from Business Insider
  • 1 sentence examples for killed from BBC
  • 3 sentence examples for killed from The Guardian
  • 1 sentence examples for killed from GutenbergBooks - Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant
  • 1 sentence examples for killed from Encyclopedia Britannica
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  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is killing
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is putting to death
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is shoot down
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is defeat
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is vote down
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is vote out
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is stamp out
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is pop
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is down
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is toss off
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is pour down
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is belt down
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is bolt down
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is drink down
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is wipe out
  • • Relevant word or phrase for killed is obliterate

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