Sentence examples for is bumped off from inspiring English sources

When a new person joins, a subscriber is bumped off to make room.

A couple of women have disappeared and another, Mary-Ann Walker, is bumped off horribly in the book's first two pages.

Ms. Berry, doing her utmost to persuade the Academy to take back her Oscar, plays Patience, a flighty would-be artist who is bumped off after she uncovers the nefarious corporate secrets of a cosmetics company.

In Carey's version, Olivier de Garmont sets out with his friend Thomas de Blacqueville but Blacqueville is bumped off in Le Havre before they sail and so Garmont's only companion is his entirely fictional English servant, John Larrit, known since childhood as Parrot for his gift as a mimic.

By the end of the play he has been through such an enormous amount of extreme rage, jealousy, neediness, madness – real madness, the total unbalancing of a mind – through sleep into this moment (before Cordelia is bumped off), this wonderful little world of worlds.

A 007 clone, Jack Davenport, is bumped off in the opening minutes, and the film's hero and villain, Colin Firth and Samuel L Jackson, bond (sorry) over their preference for spy movies with a sense of humour; a dig at the furrow-browed moodiness of Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace.

Monstrous fellow who was bumped off in a lamentable fashion.

REBOUNDS Three Knicks games have been bumped off national television.

These oligarchs made their fortunes during the murky privatisations of the Nineties, when being bumped off was an occupational hazard.

Eventually they were bumped off by Bugsy Siegel, who skimmed money from the casinos, so he was gunned down.

Ben Whishaw's Danny was sure his boyfriend was bumped off and framed as a masochistic sex fiend.