How to use "killed" in a sentence

Immediately, Ned Land attacked and killed the shark with his harpoon

They killed my friends and family

One day a big box of bananas fell down on my daddy and killed him.

He probably killed ten or fifteen enemy soldiers

She looked at him and said, 'I won't get you anything - not as much as a glass of warm river-water, you pig!' Then she looked at me and said, 'And how many babies have you killed today, you big ape?'

You're the man who's already killed one innocent girl for her money

But again nobody saw or heard him when he killed Annie in the light of a busy day

So in less than fifteen minutes the Ripper took Catherine into Mitre square, killed her, mutilated her horribly, and escaped - right under the noses of the police! His escape was amazing

At sixteen she married a miner named Davies, who was killed in an explosion in the mines

He usually killed at weekends, so he was employed, perhaps as a butcher

He had killed other women in the same way

On August 7th, before the Buck's Row murder, a woman called Martha Tabram was killed and then stabbed ferociously with a knife 39 times

'You've killed her!' he cried angrily, turning to Javert with a fierce look in his eyes.

The first shot killed the commander of the soldiers guarding the exit to the bridge

The second killed a deaf old woman who was trying to shut her window.

'I'd rather you killed me.'

'You've killed a man

'You killed a man for just thirty francs? You're a fool.' He searched Marius's pockets himself, and then Valjean's.

Apart from the details about his life that Valjean had confessed to him, he knew that Valjean had killed Inspector Javert at the barricade

Madeleine! And second, he did not kill Javert because Javert killed himself

He killed himself by jumping into the river.'

'He was carrying the body of a man he had robbed and killed,' Thenardier said

They say this is the case because Miss Lee was not in a sane state of mind when she killed Mr Dawson; they say that this crime was in defence of her sister

"Yeah, he killed another one, didn't he? Last Friday, they reckon," the tallest of the kids says.

I was sure that Maxim would have a terrible accident or even be killed

I killed her

She was smiling when I killed her

I'm glad that I killed Rebecca

They said that Rebecca killed herself.'

Do you really think Rebecca killed herself after writing that note?'

'De Winter killed Rebecca because of me

He went down to the cottage and killed her there

'Mrs Danvers,' Colonel Julyan said quietly, 'can you think of any reason why Mrs de Winter killed herself?'

It was the one clear proof that Rebecca had not killed herself.

Maybe Danny hadn't been killed in the accident, after all

Then the new dreams began, and they were far worse than the dream that she'd had immediately after Danny had been killed.

killed." The bitterness in her voice dismayed her because it revealed how little she had healed

A chill spread from the base of his spine, up his back, as he realized what the presence of these men implied about the accident that had killed Danny.

"But even if Kennebeck's bosses have a lot of influence with the Vegas police, would the cops let us be killed? Would they really let it go that far?"

because of what they saw, they were killed?"

Danny said he was sure Elmer wasn't going to come back because he'd been hit and killed by a truck

"Just because you never found him - that's not proof he was killed by a truck."

And predicting that a runaway dog will be killed in traffic - that's just a reasonable assumption to make under the circumstances

In the process of locating the boy, she and Elliot might be killed

We might both be killed before we even get close to him."

"When he finally dies, we'll want to know for sure it was the injections that killed him

He also knew that the funeral director had not killed himself

He turned his back on the man whom he had killed.

"I killed him."

"If you hadn't, he would have killed us."

"Yeah, I've killed before

deep down, I got a sick sort of thrill when I killed that man."

"You should be glad you killed that bastard," she said softly, squeezing his hand.

After all, he had never killed an ordinary citizen or a person of real worth

He had only killed scum

"We'd be killed before we could reach him

"That bastard's killed one of us now

If they were killed, the truth would die with them, and the cover-up would continue

Each time that he personally killed someone, he felt as if he were establishing another link to the world beyond this one; and he hoped, once he had made enough of those linkages, that he would be rewarded with a vision from the other side

One day maybe he would be standing in a graveyard, before the tombstone of one of his victims, and the person he had killed would reach out to him from beyond and let him see, in some vivid clairvoyant fashion, exactly what death was like

The police said he killed himself, but I knew he was afraid to die, so I didn't think that was true.'

"finished business with him", or killed him

I found out that the captain and two of his men, all Americans, weren't on the ship last night, so I'm sure they killed poor John Openshaw

So when my sister-in-law phoned at two in the morning, asking me to come over, but first to warn the police that she had just killed my brother, I spoke in my usual calm manner.

'How have you killed Andre? Why?'

Have you ever tried to explain to a sleepy police officer that your sister-in-law has just phoned to say she has killed your brother with a steam hammer?

But she would never say why or under what circumstances she had killed Andre

About his death, however, she would say nothing more than that she had killed him with the steam hammer

This is not a confession because, although I killed my husband, I am not a murderer

'I suppose she killed herself.'

killed it..

that when they were abroad, her husband was killed

I wonder if she knows who killed him

I killed Protheroe.'

So, Colonel Melchett, it was I who killed my husband.'

'He knew that it was you who killed your husband?'

So Anne Protheroe says she killed her husband

'The shot that killed old Protheroe? No, of course I didn't

'It was awful of me to think you could have killed...'

'Oh! Was he sitting there when he was killed?'

Why did she go to see Protheroe the night before he was killed?'

'So you really think that you know who killed Colonel Protheroe?' I asked.

You know that letter that Protheroe was writing when he was killed?'

'Yes - that he never killed Colonel Protheroe.'

When the poor young man was found dead and the letter was read, everyone would think that he had shot Colonel Protheroe and killed himself because he felt so guilty

'I knew she had done it, so what did it matter if that proved she had killed him?'

But afterwards I was frightened that the police might think she had killed father

It that death had swung round a full circle, it would have killed me

A kind of arm held a complicated metal case, out of which the Heat-Ray flashed as it killed anyone who was still moving

'It's no kindness to your wife,' he said, 'for you to get killed.' In the end I agreed to go north with him under cover of the woods

In the road lay a pile of three burnt bodies close together, killed by the Heat-Ray

The Martians, alarmed by the approach of a crowd, had killed a number of people with a quick-firing gun, the story said

That night he made up his mind to visit me, in order to see the Things before they were killed

At about seven o'clock last night the Martians came out of the cylinder and, moving around in metal machines, completely destroyed Woking station and the houses around it, and killed around 600 soldiers

If the Martians had only wanted destruction, they could have killed the whole population of London on Monday, as it moved out slowly through the neighboring countryside

It is certain that many died at home, killed by the Black Smoke.

On the third day, if I remember correctly, I saw a boy killed

The Martians, it seemed, had killed and eaten everyone around there, except for a few lucky ones like myself

Certainly, unless they had been killed, she and my cousins would have run away.

And you weren't killed at Weybridge?'

We aren't going to be killed

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

These germs of disease have killed people and animals since the beginning of time, but over these many years we have developed the ability to fight against them

I know very little about medical matters, but it seems to me most likely that the Martians were killed by germs.

In that case, the cylinder could be destroyed before it was cool enough for the Martians to come out, or they could be killed by guns as soon as the door opened

When he killed twelve chickens, and I paid for them, I changed my opinion of Montmorency

He pretended that the lemons were rats, and killed three of them! This was Montmorency's idea of fun.

He told us about the people killed on the river, and about the bad weather report.

We agreed to continue our trip, even if it killed us.

After a few minutes of intense thought, he sat down again and said, 'What I'm going to tell you now is a secret, and I could be killed for telling it to you

Anyone who betrays the Brotherhood will be killed by another member

In 1979 and 1980, her brother Petrocinio and her mother, Juana, were killed by Guatemalan soldiers

In 1984, her brother Victor was also killed by soldiers.

In 1913, a suffragette called Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the king's horse at a famous horse race

She went into politics when her husband, Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike, was killed in 1959.

Her parents worked on a farm, and her father was killed during World War Two