Example sentences for: killings

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

  • I must thank David Greenberg for the fascinating "History Lesson" ("") on the postwar Jewish "Revenge Group," but I disagree that such an organized and, frankly, insane plan has much in common with the revenge killings by Albanians (we assume) of Serbs in present-day Kosovo.

  • The South China Morning Post described scenes of "unconfined joy" and "delight" at the arrival of the People's Liberation Army, and according to Britain's Independent , "[a]lmost everyone agreed that China's resumption of sovereignty would help wipe out a turf war that has gripped Macau's gambling industry and sparked 39 triad gangster killings this year alone."

  • Also, USAT reports (and the WP implies), plans are underway for a trial of the fourteen soldiers suspected in the killings of six demonstrators during the riots that toppled Suharto.

  • The commentariat is saddened by Issue 2, the senseless killings of four children and their teacher by two angry youths.

  • The anti-media spin: Why do we treat school shootings as a national epidemic but dismiss racial killings as isolated incidents?


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