Sentence examples for aim and killed from inspiring English sources

The phrase "aim and killed" is not correct in English.
It seems to be a confusion of terms, possibly intending to convey a meaning related to targeting and causing death, but it does not form a coherent expression.
Example: "The hunter aimed and killed the deer in one shot."
Alternatives: "targeted and shot" or "focused and eliminated".

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Martin was walking home unarmed from high school, when Zimmerman took aim and killed him in Sanford, Florida.

A hundred and fifty yards behind him, two Taliban had crept around a building and were about to shoot him in the back, when Shinwari took aim and killed them before dragging Zeller back to the vehicles.

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Remember, they have good aim and kill in one hit.

In any case, do your best to quickly aim and kill in order to earn awards and advance to the next tier.

The treatment strategy of any new compound aims to selectively target and kill the leukemia cells with no or limited collateral damage to normal hematopoietic progenitor cells.

You need to train your soldiers to aim, fire, and kill.

Noveon beams two different wavelengths of near-infrared light at toenails to selectively take aim at and kill fungi.

Private R The report found that R from the regiment's mortar platoon was probably the paratrooper who aimed, shot at and killed 17-year-old Jackie Duddy.

He aimed down range, shot, and killed an 18 year-old goat herder named Ezequiel Hernandez, Jr.

In a statement, NATO said the man had been shot and killed after aiming his weapon at the troops and ignoring commands and hand signals to lower his gun.

They have consistently turned a blind eye to or encouraged crime and terrorism, most recently in 1994 and 1995 when Abu Amneh, a terrorist on the Central Intelligence Agency payroll, took part in a bombing campaign which aimed at destabilising the regime and killed more than a hundred people sitting innocently in a Baghdad cafe, a cinema and a mosque.

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