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Example sentences for: slaying
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He implies that killing is justified when it releases a willing victim from pain, a maxim that could lead to a justification of slaying the innocent to avoid any other painful social or personal dilemma.
John and Patsy Ramsey are writing a book about the unsolved slaying of their 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet.
Not only is the piece already a gush for the show, but--not to be a party-pooper--the last paragraph seems somehow overblown after reading the news accounts of Arkan's slaying, since he headed what was really "really a paramilitary orgainzation."
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.
Qurban Bairam (Eid El-Adha) is a time when many Muslims travel to Mecca (their holy city) to commemorate the slaying of Abraham.