Sentence examples for trying to slay from inspiring English sources

"We were trying to slay a dragon," he said.

Still, Mr. Terry is returning to the job of trying to slay the dragons he sees.

While gallantly trying to slay the beast, Lawrence gets a grisly claw in the neck, planting the fatal lycanthropic spore.

Why? Part of the answer, surely, is that people who should have been trying to slay zombie ideas have tried to compromise with them instead.

And as usual, the fifth-seeded Pete Sampras will be trying to slay the clay demons that have ushered him off the grounds after only four match victories in four years.

Because personnel costs make up the vast majority of the core budget, what happens behind closed doors in the contract negotiations could factor as heavily on the bottom line as the coming Council debate over the sacred cows Emanuel is trying to slay.

Saturday night it tries to slay the ultimate Beatles-tribute-act dragon, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

In the meantime, several states, including Iowa and California, have tried to slay the Gerry-Mander by shifting responsibility for redistricting from their legislatures to independent boards.

She seemed constrained by the success of the "Lemonade" video, as well as by her other showstoppers from the past, and tried to "slay" with too many effects.

All that can wait until Friday night in Arlington Tex., when the little university from southwest Florida tries to slay its third Goliath in a row, the University of Florida.

Kamsa, hearing a prophecy that he would be destroyed by Devaki's child, tried to slay her children, but Krishna was smuggled across the Yamuna River to Gokula (or Vraja, modern Gokul), where he was raised by the leader of the cowherds, Nanda, and his wife Yashoda.