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Example sentences for: slain

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The baby Moses, his existence endangered by the pharaoh's edict calling for all Hebrew sons to be slain, is set adrift in a basket on the Nile before being discovered--and adopted--by one of the pharaoh's wives.
Time reports that lawyers are already cozying up to the parents of slain Columbine High students.
Our prime minister was slain some months ago by a smiling ideological idiot.
The last movie starring slain rapper Tupac Shakur ( Juice , Poetic Justice ) is deemed an authentic portrayal of junkie life.
The author opened with an account of her favorite childhood dramatic heroine, the Lady Monda-green--who died with her lover, the bonny Earl of Murray: “They ha' slain the Earl of Murray, and laid him on the green.”