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 author argues that Bovino’s inflammatory rhetoric and theatrical enforcement style backfired, with his unsubstantiated claim that slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti wanted to “massacre law enforcement” particularly damaging public perception of immigration enforcement efforts.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 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

For years, rumors circulated that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the recently slain supreme leader, could be named the next one.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

"I was afeared I'd slain you," I said sulkily.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood