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How to use the word killed in a Sentence?

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Twenty months after the withdrawal, many are in hiding in Afghanistan, trying to escape Taliban retaliation, others have already been arrested or killed.

Visa Delays SIGAR

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want Russia and other nations to know the truth. I don’t want war and bloodshed. You see I’m holding a cigarette in this hand. I followed orders with this hand and killed children.

Azamat Uldarov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When someone can be killed in firing openly amidst the security cordon of the police, then what about the safety of the general public.

Akhilesh Yadav

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The number of cattle killed in the explosion and fire are still estimated.

Salvador Rivera

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today we are sending a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence, today we send a clear message to Speaker (of the House) Cameron Sexton that the people will not allow his crimes against democracy to happen without challenge.

Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our city is heartbroken, these five victims should not be dead – just like everyone else who was killed by gun violence in our city, in our country, should not be dead.

Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At 8 a.m…. NUG (National Unity Government) and PDF (People’s Defense Force) conducted an opening ceremony of the public administration office at Pazigyi village, we had launched the attack on them. We were informed that PDF were killed at that event under the attack. They are opposing our government.

Zaw Min Tun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today we are sending a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence.

State Rep. Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I dodged so many bullets, me being on ‘SNL’ would’ve killed me.

Donald Glover

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We took an attack, which killed an American citizen and wounded a half a dozen others, and retaliated against that attack on the very same day, so there was an awful lot going on in time and space, and a very compressed timeline, we did communicate to Congress, and I think I’ll just leave it at that.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re going to have to petition the court, show facts that would indicate that a fresh set of eyes, a new autopsy, may yield a different conclusion – that Stephen was not killed on Sandy Run Road in Bamberg County, that maybe he was killed somewhere else.

Eric Bland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody wants to watch a movie about their loved one being held against their will, i really wanted him to stay in jail. I wanted him to do time because I wanted him to not be able to run away from the women that he killed. Because I know that they spooked him. I know that they came back to haunt him. His death was so much easier than his victims’ (deaths).

Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the past three months, there has been an increasing number of civilians killed. The number of mass killings committed by the military has increased and… the military has been using more forms of violence against the people, the casualties in this massacre… it’s very clear that they are civilians (and) not involved in any kind of opposition movement against the military.

Aung Myo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Imagine the police killed your child. And now then imagine they won’t tell you anything. That is what we are going through.

Belkis Terán

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All the big animals had been killed and most of the smaller ones had run away.

Musa Mbatha

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, a video has been released showing how the occupiers brutally killed a warrior who bravely said to their faces: ‘Glory to Ukraine,’ i want us all to respond to his words in unity: ‘Glory to the hero. Glory to heroes. Glory to Ukraine.’.

Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout/Reuters Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We live in a place where essentially, if you have killed someone, your next very pressing question is: What do you do with the body? there are very few options.

Philip Beh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It has boggled my mind that you have not seen a massive backlash from the Black population for what is effectively a genocide. And if you look to the right, you can see that in world history, there have been great killers. The Holocaust, 11 million were killed. Six million Jews.

Ron Peri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No, sir, I do not know who did, do you think I killed Maggie?

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a representative of Oxford, Michigan, I cannot believe that I’m here again doing this 15 months later, and I am filled with rage that we have to have another press conference to talk about our children being killed in their schools.

Elissa Slotkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By 7 o’clock, I said, ‘ I do n’t like this. This is not good, ’ finally,( police) called us at 1 a.m. and said Luke Hoyer was among the students that had been killed.

Hixon Hixon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Service dogs can save lives, i can’t tell you how many veterans have messaged me and reached out to me in years past and even now and said, ‘you know, Kaya inspired me to get my own dog, because I saw you talk about how powerful she was for you, and if I had not done that, I would have killed myself.’ And I think that is Kaya’s most profound and powerful legacy.

Cole Lyle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way they killed my son, they murdered my son in a wheelchair with no legs, so they do need to do something about it, because I do I want justice for my son.

Anthony Lowe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Gun violence is a real risk to our kids today. And that is both being killed by somebody else as well as suicide in the face of the mental health issues that we’re seeing today.

Katherine Williamson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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