Sentence examples for is killed instead from inspiring English sources
The Clantons target Wyatt for assassination, but the attempt goes awry, and James is killed instead.
When Stan sends Roy into an ambush, the intended killers are killed instead.
So many women feared them that they often begged to be killed instead.
But people were killed instead by a 5-metre (16-foot) high surge of water which flooded the structure.
But the young man who was killed instead had no apparent connection to The Monk's gang.
When Mehsud was killed, instead of celebrating or letting out quiet sighs of relief, politicians and journalists reacted as if they had lost a favorite son.
Her counselor in heaven warns her: "If you stop asking why you were killed instead of someone else, stop investigating the vacuum left by your loss, stop wondering what everyone left on Earth is feeling, you can be free.
Despite repeated problems with pirates in the Strait of Malacca between Indonesia and Malaysia and now in the waters of the Arabian Sea, ship owners worried that their crews would be killed instead of held for ransom if the crews tried to defend themselves and failed.
One faction of fans was unhappy with the choice of Jonathan, preferring that Lana would have been killed instead.
Before finding redemption, Sledge questions why God has allowed his life to take the path it has and, in particular, why his daughter was killed instead of him.
