slayer

Example Sentences

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Despite the enthusiasm around the project, which would have introduced Ryan Kiera Armstrong as the new slayer alongside Gellar’s Buffy, Gellar pointed to at least one very vocal detractor.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Saint George is widely known as Christianity's most famous dragon slayer and is commonly depicted as a warrior holding a lance.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

That means what Nick Reiner might stand to inherit, if the slayer rule were to prove irrelevant in this case, is unknown.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025

She developed a reputation as a giant slayer by outcompeting market-leader Intel a decade ago to take the lead in producing central processing units, or CPUs, for personal computers and data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Angering a twenty-foot-tall drakon slayer probably wasn’t a wise strategy, but Percy was dying.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan