killing
Example Sentences
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“Substantial yet well-paced selling by the national team is curbing—but not killing—the positive market momentum,” analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note earlier this month.
Foreign automakers pulled back from sedans as well, killing dozens of models in the past decade, such as the Toyota Avalon and Nissan Maxima.
Bronstein’s killing was one of three cases in which Hochman assigned new prosecutors in the months before a trial started or a plea deal was reached.
From Los Angeles Times
Bovino was pushed into retirement after the killings of Good and Pretti, but as Salon’s Jason Kyle Howard argued, this was a cosmetic shift meant to disguise that there is no “substantive change in policy.”
From Salon
In November, a special court in Bangladesh sentenced the former prime minister, in absentia, to death for her role in the killings of at least 1,400 protesters.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
