Use killed in a sentence
Sentences starting with killed
- Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and Russia's glory were led to destruction. [2]
- Killed it with his trunk; from style of blow, think he struck it left-handed. [5]
- Killed by a dead man, you see--killed by a dead friend, in fact. [5]
- Killed them, yes! [2]
- Killed the mistress!... [2]
Sentences ending with killed
- I only know you are charged with killing a bad man, notorious in Dublin life, and that many think he got his just deserts in being killed. [11]
- These became from year to year more common; about five years ago he shot one, and afterwards another, and now they are frequently killed. [1]
- At the Secundrabagh, where nearly two thousand of the enemy occupied a great stone house in a garden, the work of slaughter was continued until every man was killed. [5]
- In this hot weather walking would be quite out of the question, either for you or for her; and I know she would persist in doing it if left to herself, and arrive half killed. [14]
- Above, an uncertain, watery moon flew in and out among the shifting clouds; and now and then a shot came through the mist and the half dusk, telling of some poor fugitive fighting, overtaken, or killed. [11]
- I had a warning from the man he killed. [11]
- I remarked one very stout woman, a half-caste, who was severely wounded in both arms, who entreated to be killed. [5]
- Twice his shots took effect; one man was wounded, and one killed. [11]
- I don't want to see any more of our countrymen killed. [9]
- You don't mean to say he's killed! [8]
Short sentences using killed
- She had killed them. [11]
- Thereupon Cambujiya killed that Bartiya. [10]
- It killed most of us. [11]
- He was stunned, not killed. [11]
- You have killed me. [5]
- You have killed me. [11]
- He killed his man. [5]
- They've killed a man, lads! [2]
- There's been a man killed. [5]
- However, he was killed. [5]
Sentences containing killed two or more times
- We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. [2]
- In six years the tiger killed 5,000 persons, minus 50; in the same six years 10,000 tigers were killed, minus 400. [5]
- If it's true that I killed Erris Boyne, what hurts most is the reason why I killed him. [11]
- I am sure that he was killed by my needle; but I am not sure that he killed himself. [11]
- As David, dismounting, stood with dripping sword in his hand, in imagination, he heard the voice of Kaid say to him, as it said that night when he killed Foorgat Bey: "Hast thou never killed a man? [11]
- You killed my sister, poor Alo; if not with a knife yourself you killed her heart, and that is just the same. [11]
- Then the sobering process followed, and men began to take thought, and to say: 'But a man was killed, and Clayton killed him. [5]
- They killed each other on slight provocation, and hoped and expected to be killed themselves --for they held it almost shame to die otherwise than "with their boots on," as they expressed it. [5]
- Ambition has killed me, and it has killed her--the Comtesse. [11]
- Once he had killed a man in the open street of the City of Quebec, and once also he had nearly killed Castine. [11]
More example sentences with the word killed in them
- I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
- He bolted with you, and he'd have killed you, if he could; but that doesn't matter. [11]
- At about twenty-six years of age he killed a man in a quarrel and fled the country. [5]
- This very last year the fisherman Phabis killed with a hammer the Alexandrian clerk who had stolen into his house, and drowned his faithless wife. [10]
- H. Twichell, he wrote: "That good and unoffending lady, the Empress, is killed by a madman, and I am living in the midst of world-history again. [5]
- Already he had wounded five and killed two. [11]
- Delay, she felt, would have killed her. [9]
- Some of us would have been killed, but--" He then told what had been in his mind, and what might be the outcome-- the killing or capture of the whole group, and safety for all at Salem. [11]
- It was a woman killed him," was Calhoun's added comment. [11]
- How did the wish that you could see me dead turn into the fearful resolve to let yourself be killed in my stead? [10]
- Then a cold wind seemed to blow from the glacier above and killed all the summer. [11]
- Well--worship me--altogether--and that will curse him, as he has killed me. [11]
- I believe 23,500 will cover all the killed, wounded, and missing in all your battles and skirmishes, leaving 50,000 who have left otherwise. [7]
- He said his wife had been killed by that treacherous drug, and he would die before he would take it. [5]
- I cannot understand why you did not deny having killed him. [11]
- And Queen Tryphoena, whom history recorded as a monster, had not killed her husband, but merely thrust him from the throne. [10]
- It was Euphrasia who took matters in her own hands and killed the fatted calf, and the meal to which they presently sat down was very different from the frugal suppers Mr. Vane usually had. [9]
- The unfortunate wretch who fired the train was killed by the explosion, and lay buried hard by, his hands sticking out of the shallow grave into which he had been huddled. [6]
- I said--'She is white, and the white people will never rest till they have killed you all, if you do this thing. [11]
- At last, a while after midnight, a man attacked a woman and nearly killed her by beating her over the head with his manacles before the jailer could come to the rescue. [5]
- In a skirmish which took place this afternoon I lost one horse, The enemy lost two men killed and seven wounded. [7]
- One never knew whether some chance remark, some allusion in the papers, would tell her you had killed her father. [11]
- It matters little whether I killed him or not; the law says I did, and the law has taken its toll of me. [11]
- You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider. [5]
- I killed him when I was madly jealous. [13]
- I reckon that when he resolved to fight, himself, he thought he might get killed and not have a chance to forgive me any more in this life, so he made the will again, and I've seen it, and it's all right. [5]
- He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides. [5]
- Some thirty prisoners were so taken, and during the night which followed the Boers carried away another thirty killed and wounded--the wounded to Krugersdorp hospital. [5]
- I see you were not killed, as you richly deserved. [9]
- If the Seigneur were killed in the encounter--he must defend himself now-- what a miserable notoriety and possible legal penalty and public punishment! [11]
- If Juste Duvarney were killed in the duel which they foresaw, so far as Doltaire was concerned I was out of the counting in the young lady's sight. [11]
- Two of these were killed by the Boers themselves, by accident, the other by Jameson's army--one of them intentionally, the other by a pathetic mischance. [5]
- Yet if I were but allowed candles, or a lantern, or a torch, some books, paper, pencil, and tobacco, and the knowledge that I had not killed Juste Duvarney, I could abide the worst with some sort of calmness. [11]
- Hundreds, maybe thousands, were being killed off there in the hills. [11]
- The French soldiers went to kill and be killed at the battle of Borodino not because of Napoleon's orders but by their own volition. [2]
- I keep that weapon yet that Luigi killed the man with, and I'll show it to you sometime. [5]
- I knew it was not a rat this time, and I thought it might be a centipede, because the Captain had killed one on deck in the afternoon. [5]
- They think he was killed in Texas. [9]
- When my father was killed and I was left a homeless orphan you had no pity for me, though your husband was my mother's brother. [9]
- I think he was genuinely fond of birds, but, so far as I know, he usually confined himself to one a day; he never killed, as some sportsmen do, for the sake of killing, but only as civilized people do,--from necessity. [4]
- His later history was called for, and when he said he had 'accidentally' killed a man, considerable satisfaction was expressed; when he added that the man was a priest, he was roundly applauded, and had to take a drink with everybody. [5]
- But Big Tom was a gentleman: he never killed deer for mere sport. [4]
- Two fell in war, the third was killed by the machinery while at his work. [10]
- The posts left vacant by Bagration, who had been killed, and by Barclay, who had gone away in dudgeon, had to be filled. [2]
- The rascal fell upon me, and killed my dog and--by my Osirian father!--the crocodiles would long since have eaten him if a woman had not come between us, and made herself known to me as Bent-Anat, the daughter of Rameses. [10]
- He had picked up the scrap of a grenade that had killed an aide-de-camp standing near the commander in chief and had taken it to his commander. [2]
- If he looks up at an apple-tree in blossom and a bird is piping in the branches, all he thinks of is how soon the happy creature will be killed by the cat! [10]
- That good and unoffending lady the Empress is killed by a mad-man, and I am living in the midst of world-history again. [5]
- At the Palace two days past thou saidst thou hadst never killed a man; and I know that thy religion condemns killing even in war. [11]
- They came across two bullocks "laden with copper pice," and killed the four drivers and took the money. [5]
- When I was twenty I killed two men with my own sword at a blow; when I was thirty, to serve the King I rode a hundred and forty miles in one day--from Paris to Dracourt it was. [11]
- Mr. Colvin, the triangulating surveyor of the Adirondacks, killed him in his last official report to the State. [4]
- They killed two treasure-bearers, and got 4,000 rupees. [5]
- More than once to-day myself and my friend here"--pointing to Perrot "could have killed you. [11]
- His first messengers to us were killed, and that is why the news of the relief came so late. [11]
- This cheerful invitation to the tavern was the remains of a huge panther which had been killed in the region a few weeks before. [5]
- She listened sympathisingly to the servant's lamentation over the marvellous change which had taken place in Heinz since his horse was killed under him. [10]
- He drew himself to the gratings, grasping them with his hands, and looking out through them, sat waiting till the officer was passing once more, and then said: "Sweetness, you'd better mind your eye, now, because you beats have killed this cuss. [5]
- From December, 1602, to the December following, the plague destroyed 30,518 persons in London; the same disease that in the sixth year of Elizabeth killed 20,500, and in the thirty-sixth year 17,890, besides the lord mayor and three aldermen. [4]
- When I went to sleep that night, my last delicious thought was, "I've killed a bear! [4]
- Still, I continued to loan him to anybody who was willing to borrow him, my idea being to get him crippled, and throw him on the borrower's hands, or killed, and make the borrower pay for him. [5]
- I was sorry to hear that Dick was killed. [5]
- It was impossible to give battle before information had been collected, the wounded gathered in, the supplies of ammunition replenished, the slain reckoned up, new officers appointed to replace those who had been killed, and before the men had had food and sleep. [2]
- He is going to get himself killed. [2]
- Was he now to commit the deed for which he had despised and killed others? [10]
- They probably failed to catch the guard, tumbled back, and were struck by the wheel and killed. [5]
- He was going to Boston in charge of the body of the lamented Dr. Revere, the Assistant Surgeon of the regiment, killed on the field. [6]
- When I went to bed that night, I killed Brown in seventeen different ways--all of them new. [5]
- One thing seemed to be sufficiently demonstrated: our current was so tremendous that it killed before the victim could cry out. [5]
- It was not to be killed by the cold humour of the man who had worsted him. [11]
- It was singular to ask his enemy that he should see his papers handed to Count Frontenac if he were killed, but it was characteristic of him. [11]
- Dolokhov, running beside Timokhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. [2]
- The thought shot through me that I was a murderer; that I had killed a man--a man who had never done me any harm. [5]
- The jury finally threw themselves back upon the indisputable fact that Selby was dead, that either wound would have killed him (admitted by the doctors), and rendered a verdict that he died from pistol-shot wounds inflicted by a pistol in the hands of Laura Hawkins. [5]
- Upwards of two thousand were either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners; and the two pieces of ordnance were brought off as trophies of the victory. [4]
- Yet in Egypt thou wilt kill, or thou shalt thyself be killed, and thy aims will come to naught. [11]
- But please know this, Mr. Calhoun, that she never believed you killed Erris Boyne. [11]
- The cause of this indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by the sight of the killed and wounded. [2]
- The readers of this great story-teller, who was so long in obtaining recognition, who "made twenty assaults upon fame and had forty books killed under him" before he achieved success, will find his genius fully appreciated and fairly weighed in this discriminating essay. [6]
- How many hopes this base epistle had destroyed; it seemed as though it had killed the last spark of love in her soul! [10]
- It was the third horse which the messenger had killed since he left the Rhine, yet he was sure of arriving too soon; for he had to announce to a father the death of his promising son. [10]
- No, of one thing I am sure-- you never killed an undefended man. [11]
- Wherever they turn they meet elephant, and many are killed. [5]
- An' it killed thet man, as I seen afterward. [13]
- It was not these matters that vexed him now, but the underlying forces of life set in motion by the blow which killed a fellow-man. [11]
- In one of these instances the witness who killed the cowherd said, "In Thuggee this is strictly forbidden, and is an act from which no good can come. [5]
- The fight begun then, and they never got no further--both of them killed. [5]
- Well then, just then the sky split wide open, with a crash, and the lightning killed two men of the after watch, and crippled two more. [5]
- The Indians killed them, the rivers and the storms, the plague and the fire, the sickness and the cold wiped them out. [11]
- Men had kissed their wives and then killed them--fondled them, and then strangled them. [11]
- The mother of the youth that had been killed still sat huddled at the foot of the statue of justice, enduring the anguish of listening to these drunken revels with dull resignation. [10]
- Pertinax was killed, the wretched Didius Julianus bought the empire, and this brought my father to Rome from Pannonia. [10]
- Oh dear, if the twin had only killed him, I should be out of my--" "What is you mumblin' 'bout, Chambers? [5]
- For I believe the thought of a Carvel in a debtor's prison would have killed him. [9]
- He had beaten the sweat-stained horse (temporarily--such was the impression Honora received), but she knew that he would like to have killed it for its opposition. [9]
- We met in the Spaniards' country, where you killed my servant; and again at Fort Rupert, you remember. [11]
- The asphalt and the soot killed them. [9]
- Now you understand the shooting scrape in which Gebhart was killed the other day. [5]
- They dropped down the river to a place called Mulberry Shade, where the King killed a deer and prepared for them another feast, at which they had rolls and cakes made of wheat. [4]
- He's not among the prisoners nor among the killed! [2]
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