Sentence examples for slaying by from inspiring English sources

Under the Kanun, an Albanian code of behavior that has been passed on for more than 500 years, "blood must be paid with blood," with a victim's family authorized to avenge a slaying by killing any of the killer's male relatives.

More important, this was demon slaying by the Bruins.

I've been slain by the arrow of time... maybe.

"As a Kurdish intellectual, he was slain by the state.

"Beauty slain by the beast" says the Sun.

There, by premeditated treachery or in a sudden brawl, he was slain by the MacDonnells.

But how to summon up the ghosts of distant generations slain by political pig-headedness?

She devastated Caria and Lycia until she was slain by Bellerophon.

Or, he thought, I could get myself slain by a hero.

Abel, in the Old Testament, second son of, who was slain by his older brother, (Genesis 4 1 16).

But during the negotiations Tyler was attacked and slain by the mayor of London.