Sentence examples for killed from high-quality English sources.

• They killed us morally.

• They’re being killed on the streets.

• A Cleveland police officer killed Tamir Rice.

• Zarqawi’s forces probably killed twice that number.

• 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.