Sentence examples for upward killing from inspiring English sources

It struck the rail of the cabin deck and glanced upward, killing Capt.

A second former teammate of Jayson Williams testified on Thursday that an open shotgun held by Mr. Williams discharged as he jerked it upward, killing a chauffeur.

In 2010 a magnitude 7 earthquake wrecked Port-au-Prince, killing upward of 200,000 people.

Yellow fever already kills upward of 30,000 people a year worldwide, though in 2013 as many as 60,000 might have died from the disease.

It killed upward of 1,300 people, many of them women and children; caused damage estimated at $1.9 billion; and destroyed thousands of Gaza homes.

Among them are ammunition warehouses and the homes that were used by leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the regime that killed upward of 1.7 million Cambodians during its rule from 1975 to 1979.

Although the attack may send a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about future chemical use, it is unlikely to bring the wider Syrian conflict, which has killed upward of half a million people since 2011 and destabilized the region, closer to an end.

In 2011, for example, an elevator in a Manhattan office building surged upward with the door still open, killing a 41-year-old advertising executive.

Two months later, Baron Simpson, who was muscling upward toward leadership, was killed.

Estimates of the number of people killed ranged upward of 200,000, and several hundred thousand others were injured.

Such reports still convey a skewed impression of the war's true dimensions, however, the fact is that the Desert Storm campaign, quick and surgically precise though it was, involved battle carnage on a scale and at a pace equal to some of this century's most horrifying military engagements: upward of 100,000 Iraqis killed in less than 7 weeks.