Example sentences for: slain

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

  • slay ride a punning reference to ride in a vehicle in which the victim is slain.

  • About nearly 56,789 children were literally cut up like a butcher does a calf, after being strangled or slain, in all ways, indeed the sights of the bloody windrows

  • 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.”

  • More than 550 were slain throughout the week.

  • 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.


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