Sentence examples for killing from inspiring English sources
'killing' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to the act of causing death to a living thing, or in a figurative sense when referring to a task as being difficult or overwhelming. Example: This report is killing me - I've been working on it nonstop for days.
noun
An instance of someone being killed.
Some days I don't think I'm going to make it and just feel like killing myself.
The federal appeals court in Atlanta ordered that the execution should be delayed for at least 30 days, while a Georgia court of appeals imposed its own stay to give the courts more time to consider the propriety of the single lethal injection as a method of killing.
In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as "fun", something he "loved"; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a "bad guy".
Police believe he opened fire at three locations in the western Idaho city of Moscow, killing his landlord, his adoptive mother and a manager at a restaurant his parents frequented.
Renewal of the expiring Patriot Act powers would come through the USA Freedom Act, a House-passed bill that extends their lifespan in exchange for killing the bulk US phone records surveillance exposed in 2013 by the Guardian, thanks to whistleblower Edward Snowden.
It is such a money spinner thanks to its integrated advertising packages that the network doubled it to two series each year in 2013 without killing audience enthusiasm.
A security forces officer from Russia's Chechnya region and four other men have been charged in connection with shooting Nemtsov on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin on 27 February, but investigators have failed to get those behind what is widely believed to be a contract killing.
Farmers had a vested interest in killing foxes, which preyed on their livestock; a hobby rider out for an enjoyable day's riding in the autumn sunshine doesn't really care what is being pursued, a fox or a scented rag.
He asked Congolese soldiers and police to "protect citizens and not to obey perverse orders aimed at killing defenceless men and women".
Many students also wanted to protest against the result of the inquest into Mark Duggan's death – a verdict of "lawful killing" was reached after a policeman shot and killed Duggan in August last year.
Her PhD examined the social and legal perceptions of children who kill, from the 18th century to the present, and included reaction to the killing in 1993 of the Liverpool toddler James Bulger by two 10-year-olds.
