Sentence examples for he virtually killed from inspiring English sources

The funny thing was, he virtually killed the joke because he had to explain, "Okay, record players came with this plastic casing, and to play a record, first you had to lift up the casing to expose the turntable".

Credit card receipts and tougher oversight have virtually killed off unreported tips.

When the unfortunate players enter territory held by Chinese hackers, they are virtually killed and less virtually robbed.

"Electronic music became completely mainstream and CDs … virtually killed off vinyl record production," lament the band.

A1 was a beacon of the free media, they say, and now it has been virtually killed off for its criticism of Mr Gruevski.

A surge in high street sales in October has virtually killed off any chances of a cut in interest rates for the foreseeable future.

Crime in Lagos tends to be petty; Yaba market, for instance, is known for its pickpockets.This is a recent shift: during Sani Abacha's presidency in the 1990s, violent crime in Lagos virtually killed the city's nightlife.

When Liverpool gave the ball back to West Ham, Dietmar Hamann cleverly made sure the ball was unlikely to run out of play for a goal-kick that would have virtually killed off the game.

Iran's pop music industry is undergoing a revival, three decades after it was virtually killed off by the Islamic Revolution.

Bell was the Killie hero again and his save from close range from Ryan McGuffie led to the second goal that virtually killed the tie.

In many respects, Twitter took off in the UK precisely because it had an SMS service, whereas Jaiku, the competing service which was bought and virtually killed off by Google (at least so far), did not only had SMS in Finland, a tiny market, and thus languished on the desktop rather than the mobile.