Sentence examples for ground killing from inspiring English sources

Topsy picked Blount up with her trunk and threw him to the ground, killing him instantly.

One recently burnt to the ground, killing the family inside, after a candle set the place alight.

There the bomb exploded on the ground, killing three airport employees who hadn't been planning to fly anywhere at all.

In December 2007, two brothers who were washing windows on the Upper East Side plummeted 47 stories to the ground, killing one but, remarkably, not the other.

More than two and a half years ago, the house, home to nine developmentally disabled residents, burned to the ground, killing four of them.

Nearby, on Sunday, a pillar built to support aboveground rails collapsed, sending a parking-lot sized slab of concrete to the ground, killing six people.

Operations early this week, from the air and the ground, killed at least eight fighters from Islamic Jihad and two from Hamas.

Bands of the Paiute, Shoshone, Bannock, Gosiute, and other peoples burned many stations to the ground, killed station keepers, and stole horses and equipment.

Dogs and men prick up their ears at a rustle in the undergrowth, a rifle cracks and a big black boar thuds to the ground, killed by a single bullet.

American and Honduran officials have said a second boat arrived and opened fire on the government agents, and a brief but intense shootout ensued in which government forces on the ground killed two drug traffickers.

The following year, a single incident on February 8 , 2013 resulted in almost half the loss of life incurred during these 6 weeks, when Murle raiders attacked a group of Lou Nuer civilians as they migrated to seasonal grazing grounds, killing over 100.