killing

Example Sentences

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Many of the birds were only partially eaten or not eaten at all, indicating that the killings were not solely for food.

From Science Daily

The Nottingham Inquiry - being chaired by retired judge Her Honour Deborah Taylor - will undertake an independent assessment of the events leading up to the killings and provide recommendations to prevent similar incidents from happening.

From BBC

Embassy in Mexico City on the anniversary of Valdez’s killing, demanding that López Serrano be sent to Mexico to face justice.

From Los Angeles Times

Historians say the killing helped galvanise support for the burgeoning anti-colonial movement that led to independence 11 years later, in 1960.

From BBC

We need to start paying attention to the cumulative effect of the thousand tiny cuts slowly killing us.

From Salon