be killed
Example Sentences
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For months, Chinese social-media users have been buzzing about the U.S. “kill line,” a phrase used in videogames to describe the point at which a character can be killed with a single blow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
He is the 11th Al Jazeera journalist to be killed since the start of the war in Gaza, where a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been in place for six months.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Shari and I were kind of hoping that we were going to come out of that meeting with the news that the show was going to be killed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
When he got the news that he would not be killed, he collapsed to the ground.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
In the book, the rabbits had come across this warren—this community—that accepted food handouts from humans in exchange for accepting that some of them would be killed by the same humans in return.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
