be killed
Example Sentences
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Plus, Lavina and McCollum and the community members they organized don’t just want hyperscale centers out of all PGC land; they also want the Landover proposal to be killed for good.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
It’s a stinging insult: By the samurai code, Kanbei should be killed, not imprisoned — Murashige couldn’t have landed a more devastating slap than by letting him live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Animal rights groups were also concerned that Neukgu would be killed during the capture process - something that happened to Porongi, a puma that had escaped from the same zoo in 2018.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
“I intended the patient should die by nature,” he later wrote, “rather than be killed by art.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Many microorganisms would be killed; we do not know which ones or how many, or what the consequences might be.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
