The phrase "able to kill a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing capabilities, particularly in relation to lethal actions or abilities.
Example: "The new species of spider is able to kill a small bird with its venom."
Alternatives: "capable of killing a" or "able to take down a".
The militants were able to kill a skilled and experienced commander who had been entrusted with providing security for one of the most powerful Sunni leaders in Iraq.
In a 2010 Fox News interview, under pressure to explain whether the Obama administration was any closer to capturing or killing Osama bin Laden, Mr. Kerry's predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said that "we have gotten closer because we have been able to kill a number of their trainers, their operational people, their financiers".
Munro adds that this practice might have had economic as well as symbolic importance, despite the ready availability of domesticated animals, because being able to kill a large number of animals at one time would have been worth the large communal effort it required.
In the latter case, "you would only be able to kill a suspect if they represented an immediate threat".
Sure you might be able to kill a lot of us, but you will never wipe us out.
In an experiment, the most abundant toxin found in black mamba venom was observed to be able to kill a mouse in as little as 4.5 minutes.
To debate: Should the U.S. be able to kill an American citizen without judicial process?
Furthermore, the CTL clone was not able to kill an HLA-A2− BC cell line, again indicating HLA-A2-restricted lysis (Fig. 2c).
The huge diversity among tail fiber proteins suggests that a particular tailocin will probably be able to kill only a confined subset of other pseudomonad strains and hence typically display a narrow spectrum, as observed for the HMW bacteriocins from P. putida BW11M1 and RW10S2.
The Rangers were able to kill off a hooking penalty to Nedved midway through the second period.
But it is unarguable that people with easy, almost unlimited, access to guns are able to kill people a lot more easily than people who can't buy guns by the shopping-cart load at the local big box.
