Example sentences for: killing

How can you use “killing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mark Twain poses us a little mystery in Pudd'nhead Wilson: which knife does the killing?

  • The piece notes that the Cambodian "Killing Fields" genocide does not make the list, although Babe Ruth's 60th home run does (#89), finishing five places newsier than the election of Winston Churchill.

  • Killing could be morally justified, as long as it was Romans attacking barbarians.

  • Meanwhile, the Times adds in a separate story (an Agence France-Presse dispatch) that, not to be out-thugged, the head of the Syrian- and Iranian-backed terrorist organization, Hezbollah, speaking at a rally in Beirut, told a large crowd that getting rid of the peace deal requires killing not just Israeli soldiers and settlers, but also Arafat.

  • 8 There was this much equality in the founding, but anchoring the “peculiar institution” of slavery in the Constitution was the great “offence” against equality that could be expiated only on the killing fields of Gettysburg and Antietam.


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