Sentence examples similar to served to kill from inspiring English sources

Fires serve to kill young trees or to keep them in a shrub form.

But they usually serve to kill time if, for example, there is no substitute teacher.

In a telltale scene just before intermission, the initial panic over the family's financial ruin is acted out at the dinner table as behind the Rimplegars and oblivious to them, Donald is stringing cord for a mechanism that will serve to kill him and Elizabeth, the fulfillment of their absurdly conceived suicide pact.

That may not happen, but the mere suggestion that your email is no longer private would serve to kill the UK population's relish for new media stone dead, and with it large swathes of the developing online economy.

New taxes will never be enough and would only serve to kill a reviving economy, just as they did in 1937 after the 1934 dollar devaluation raised the economy from depression.

It serves to kill innocents in Burundi".

But Bennett said Rockefeller's last-minute hold "can only serve to kill" the bill.

In fact, a trigger would be nothing but a win for the insurance industry because it serves to kill the public health insurance option outright.

The traditions also serve another function: they help to kill time.

Its push this spring for greater gun rights in the District of Columbia served to effectively kill a measure — once seemingly assured of passage — to give the district a voting seat in Congress.

Do not eat hot dogs, luncheon meats, cold cuts, other deli meats such as bologna, or fermented or dry sausages unless they are heated to an internal temperature of 165°F or are steaming hot just before serving them to kill the bacteria.