Sentence examples for to slaying from inspiring English sources
verb
To kill, murder.
- The knight slew the dragon.
In fact, I actually started to get used to "slaying bodies," as we called killing the enemy back then.
FRANKFURT — For the European Central Bank, dedicated to slaying the dragon of inflation, the moment of truth arrived Thursday.
In a beautiful verse, the Koran says that the killing of an innocent is akin to slaying the whole community.
When Ferris turns to slaying villains, however, he falters, expending too much ammunition on soft targets (Stalin, Robespierre) and straw men (Derrida).
The charge of "privatising the NHS" (roughly equivalent to slaying the first-born) was for decades enough to quash any bid to take on the monolith.
If more philanthropists followed this firmly utilitarian approach, then we would be closer to slaying the global giants of want, ignorance and disease.
David was about to slay Goliath.
"You wanted to slay (her)?" Cherniske said.
Theoretical willingness to slay class enemies.
All the requisite fantasy elements are here: Dragons to slay.
Knights used merely to have to slay the odd dragon.
