Sentence examples for kill for a reason from inspiring English sources

"I'd kill for a reason to shower, water cooler chat, a meeting of the minds," I say.

It was premeditated by a man of apparently sound mind with no previous convictions who intended to kill her and who was proud to kill her for a reason.

No person should be targeted and killed for any reason.

Here we are, I thought, surely about to be killed for a very good reason – for mocking a warlord in his own house.

The ranchers were killing them for a reason".

Yet as much as he offers a tantalizing distinction between a "bad" mobster and a "good" one like Tony, who loves his family and kills only for a reason, the one-dimensional Richie is annoying, possibly more than the creators intended.

Unlike his father, he can't bring himself to kill for callous reasons.

Still, he says, "if chimpanzees kill for adaptive reasons, then perhaps other species do, too, including humans".

The ruthless gang at the center of the story kills to give their lives "a kind of sense and significance," reminding us that there are indeed people, terrorists for example, who kill for reasons other than mere "self-preservation".

They kill for the simplest reasons".

We miss the people we know, but many more are killed for no reason from a distance by just pushing a button".