slain

Example Sentences

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Further away, friends of the slain officers were remembering the men they had lost - and speaking of their relief that Freeman had been found.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The senator from Oklahoma also distanced himself from remarks he made at the time in which he called one of the Americans slain in Minneapolis a "deranged individual."

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

She said she hopes rallying around the slain “Buffy” series can help persuade Hulu to reconsider its decision or prompt another network to pick up the show.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Iran on Sunday named Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, Iranian state media reported, echoing the kind of hereditary rule the Islamic Republic once replaced.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Her hair had burned away in Drogo's pyre, so her handmaids garbed her in the skin of the hrakkar Drogo had slain, the white lion at the Dothraki sea.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin