Sentence examples for were to be killed from inspiring English sources

He did not explain why some prisoners were to be killed.

Minutes before they were to be killed, a cease-fire was announced.

The men only discovered that they were to be killed on the morning of their executions.

The orders now changed: all the prisoners were to be killed.

"The Tutsis in '94 knew they were to be killed," Girumuhatse explained.

That afternoon a truck arrived with 28 additional lions, which were to be killed the next day.

"I was to be killed in the Holocaust," he said.

Every inhabitant was to be killed, every house burned.

"They concentrated on male youths and whoever did not manage to escape was to be killed".

"To be coddled in New York City as a poet is to be killed slowly".

The SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, ordered: "Every inhabitant is to be killed.