Example sentences for: slain

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

  • The score by Mychael Danna features faraway muezzin wails--calls that could be emanating from the girl in the flickering movie who's about to be slain.

  • By 1861, even Thomas Huxley was tired of arguing with people who didn't believe in evolution; "Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once," said the eminent biologist.

  • 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 episode is also covered inside at the NYT . Clinton said that he'd been moved by the tears of three little Palestinian girls who begged him to help free their fathers, imprisoned for murdering Israelis, as he also was by meeting the children of slain Israelis.

  • There are also monuments honoring women in the military, the victims of the failed Iran rescue mission, the slain Kennedy brothers, the victims of the space shuttle Challenger mission, the Rough Riders, and the victims of the USS


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