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
That awareness of the risk makes it even more surprising that some of the most senior people in the Iranian regime were meeting on Saturday morning - allowing so many to be killed.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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
Like the metal leash, "we are protected by an unreliable, thin chain of ethics. And if it's cut off, we will be killed by this technology," said Todo.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
You had to be killed to have it count as being assassinated.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
