Sentence examples for killing works from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, if you can catch a young artist on the way up, you can make a killing: works by the currently hot-hot-hot Colombian artist Oscar Murillo have rocketed from about $3,000 just two years ago in his gallery, to almost $400,000 at auction this year.

Political prisoners later said that the criminals in the camps were more dangerous than the meagre food and the killing work conditions.

But "Brethren" pulses with distilled history in its suggestions of killing work that fails to sustain life, of grinning minstrel-show exuberance and of hope and despair.

Still, as distinct from revisionist historians and environmentalists hellbent on trampling any triumphalist frontier memory, McMurtry keeps a soft spot in his heart for the pain and courage of plain people who endured the killing work, the shattering loneliness, the persistent threat of Indian raids.

Check out how all that killing worked out.

He's a German who made a killing working in finance in London, only to spend it all becoming a shaman in the Peruvian jungle.

Octavia Spencer won for best supporting actress as Aibileen's best friend, Minny, who endures soul-killing work for Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard), a housewife who believes in white superiority, before moving on to Celia (Jessica Chastain, in another Oscar-nominated role), a bottle blonde shunned by everyone in town.

Sutter singled out defenseman Robyn Regehr and center Mike Richards for their penalty-killing work on Sunday.

"I'm sure Darryl will want us to tighten up in the D-zone and the PK and go from there," Kopitar said of the Kings' defensive zone play and penalty-killing work.

In one interview on camera, a farmer describes his work in the killing fields, work in which his hand got so tired slicing throats that he had to change his grip on his knife.

Even before the killing, the work of the new police officers here had been stymied by accusations that they were collaborating with the American military.