Example sentences for: slain

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

  • The throned figure, God, holds a book with seven seals that are successively broken by Christ, who is represented as a slain lamb.

  • 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.”

  • The last movie starring slain rapper Tupac Shakur ( Juice , Poetic Justice ) is deemed an authentic portrayal of junkie life.

  • 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.

  • True to wild-West stereotypes, Stewart was slain by a neighboring farmer, leaving his strong-willed wife, Helen, to assume the duties of the ranch.


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