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Example sentences for: slain

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A woman refugee gives reporter Jack Kelley a lock of hair she says she took from the head of her 18-month-old godchild, slain in a massacre by Serbs last week.
Time reports that lawyers are already cozying up to the parents of slain Columbine High students.
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.”
Another dancer, sometimes a small boy, will represent El Toro (the bull), who initiates a bullfight with El Abuelo and is slain.
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.