Sentence examples for killing from high-quality English sources.

• Sometimes saving is easier than not killing.

• Just as “homicide” means killing a person and “suicide” means killing yourself, “genocide” means killing a people.

• It’s hard not to have a sneaking admiration for the way Ava shoehorns in every hitwoman cliche in the book: posing as a sex worker, killing in a red backless frock, crying while killing, disco carnage.

• Help yourself to the latest from Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing” series, including “Killing Reagan,” “Killing Van Buren,” “Killing the Smoot-Hawley Tariff,” “Killing Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne,” and J.

• A may not prevent the wrong that W will do in killing X, Y, and Z by killing B.

• The middle path in just war theory depends on showing that killing civilians is worse than killing soldiers.

• But it would also forbid forms of killing that seem intuitively reasonable, such as killing in self-defense.

• This focus on killing might seem myopic—war involves much more violence and destruction than the killing alone.

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• Absolute and maximal versions of deontological pacifism maintain that killing is never permitted, even the killing of enemy soldiers.

• Naturally, someone might hold that killing is an absolute moral wrong, i.e., killing anyone – no matter how guilty – is never morally justified.

• In response, the “Lesser Selection” contends that the critics are mistaken to claim that killing robbers is killing people and caring about robbers is caring about people.

• As Ryan puts this: “its general claim is that the proponent of killing cannot produce a single compelling argument for why killing another person is permissible” (Ryan 1983, 509).

• In medieval China, killing within the family was treated differently from killing a stranger; killing your father was a worse crime than killing a child.

• As Hanna points out, failure to warn the potential poison victim would not be killing, instead Agent would be failing to prevent her past behavior from constituting killing (Hanna 2014, 679).

• Blair may be just a “symptom”, but that doesn’t stop Galloway from holding him personally responsible for the “near killing of the Labour party”, the “killing of Iraq” and for making a “huge financial killing” since he left office.

• “My smoking is killing me, my diet’s killing me, my heels are killing me, my shopping’s killing me, my ego is killing me, can’t sleep, it’s killing me, my label’s killing me.”

killing sentence examples

• "I enjoy killing anyone that God commands me to kill - the way I enjoy killing chickens and rams," he said in the video clip released just after Boko Haram had carried out one of its deadliest attacks, in January 2012, killing more than 180 people in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city.

• In both seasons, Goldberg goes on killing sprees over many months, which could classify him as a serial killer, or someone who repeatedly commits murder and usually does so in a pattern, like killing all of the victims in the same way or killing the same types of people, according to the American Psychological Association.

• Glenn Whipp Los Angeles Times Jennifer Aniston, “The Morning Show” Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies” Olivia Colman, “The Crown” Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve” Laura Linney, “Ozark” Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Margherita Mazzuco, “My Brilliant Friend” Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve” “This is a category so crowded that last year’s winner – Jodie Comer for ‘Killing Eve’ – might not even be nominated.”

• On one hand we have the president of the United States urging governors to “dominate” those protesting against the heartless, brutal killing of George Floyd, while saying absolutely nothing about holding to account officers such as Daniel Pantaleo (the killing of Eric Garner); Betty Jo Shelby (the killing of Terence Crutcher); Darren Wilson (the killing of Mike Brown); Blane Salamoni (the killing of Alton Sterling); and Jeronimo Yanez (Philando Castile).