Sentence examples for killing living from inspiring English sources

Treating light chiffon with a reptilian pattern was a smart way to get the effect without killing living things, which Ms. McCartney abhors.

Had the compound been acting like detergent indiscriminately killing living tissue this might have explained the microscopic carnage, but in tests with mammalian cells it was nontoxic.

Years of watching your Buddhist friends gently coax spiders onto pieces of paper and carry them outdoors have made you feel guilty about killing living things, even gross ones.

So we do the dinner thing, and he's all, like, "I'll just have a salad," and I go, "Wait, are you some sort of total vegetarian whatever?" And he says yes, that he doesn't believe in killing living things for food, and I'm, like, "Excuse me, but I'm gonna eat the cow before it eats me".

At the end of the season's first episode, we saw Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores, in violation of the programming that prevents hosts from killing living creatures, swat a fly on her neck; it was only a matter of time before the park's android workers would find a way to stand up to the human guests who exploit them.

The variation in O2 permeability, either by blocking apoplastic pores or killing living tissues, indicated that physical resistance is the dominating factor impeding O2 loss from rice roots, although respiratory O2 consumption may contribute to low rates of ROL (Kotula et al. 2009b).

Her mother, an unapologetic meat-eater, points out that vegetarians kill living plants, not to mention the insects and field animals that inevitably fall to the harvesting process.

Unlike other chemicals used by industry, pesticides are designed to kill living animals, making researchers particularly concerned that they may harm humans.

Pesticides are engineered to kill living organisms in a number of ways, including destroying the nervous system of the insects they target.

My only problem -- and it's a crazy one for a chef, which I am -- is that I don't like to kill living things.

The study of these peptides activities is currently rising after the recent occurrence of synthetic peptides designed to stimulate, penetrate and eventually kill living cells.