Sentence examples for been dispatched by a from inspiring English sources

The possibility of the detective's death has been strong since Blood Rain (1999), in which he seemed to have been dispatched by a Mafia car bomb in the final paragraph.

Salman Rushdie, an author whom Islamists revile, stayed away, warned by police that two assassins had been dispatched by a Mumbai mafioso to prowl among the literati and murder him.When it turned out that the police story was more inventive than most novels, Mr Rushdie offered to speak by video link.

When the restaurant opened, he was the expediter, the one who read off the orders when they appeared on a ticker-tape machine (having been dispatched by a touch-screen computer in the dining room) and approved the plates before they went out.

But then, yes, you wake up one day before the end of April and the game's most magnificent player and best regular-season team are gone from the scene, gone from the airwaves, Washington's having been dispatched by a Little Montreal Team That Could.

And in the 1996 Broadway revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," Mr. Duell played Erronius, a man in search of his sons who has been dispatched by a soothsayer to circle the seven hills of Rome seven times.

She knew he had been dispatched by an electric company to a town outside Tacloban and feared the worst.

He is dispatched by a sidekick of Tony's after begging for his life at gunpoint.

He was dispatched by a sin gle swipe of the attendant's parang, or long knife, and the crowd murmured its ap proval of such a neat job.

"I rarely made it to the final reel without being dispatched by a gun or a knife or a length of twine, typically administered by a rival hood".

A third is dispatched by a manager back to call-center boot camp, since her accent fails to convince callers they are talking to a "real" American.

This new ghoul could, likewise, only be dispatched by a scientific solution: destroying the brain or severing it from the rest of the body.