KILL in a Sentence

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For KILL, below is one of 420 sentences:
She knew that she should kill one of the shoats but she put it off from day to day, hoping to raise them to maturity.

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 Meanings and Examples of KILL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kill
 v.  cause the death of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It will kill Auntie if she knows I ever even looked that woman in the face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  That morning Aunt Pitty had reached the regretful decision that she had better kill the patriarch before he died of old age and pining for his harem which had long since been eaten.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  It's over and done with and I'd have been a ninny not to kill him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  I didn't dream you'd faint, though the Lord knows you've had enough today to kill you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  She knew that she should kill one of the shoats but she put it off from day to day, hoping to raise them to maturity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  And he said frankly that another baby would kill her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  If she hadn't been afraid to kill one Yankee, she shouldn't fear merely talking to another.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  She was beyond caring who saw her, beyond anything except a fiery desire to kill him, but dizziness was sweeping her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  He wanted to kill him but I told him it was my right, because Sally is my sister-in-law, and he saw reason finally.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  Weary with dread, she felt that she would rather kill herself than try to make a new beginning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  And if you turned over in a ditch, it might kill your baby and you too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  Or if Aunt Pitty-- but the shock would kill Pitty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  Ah hope Ah done kill dat black baboon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
14  And if he does turn them up, then I'll kill him, if it's the last deed of m life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  He had hated them enough to kill one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Cigarettes kill over a hundred thousand Britons every year.
17  Tom refused to join the army, believing that he had no moral right to kill.
18  Chlorine is added to the water to kill bacteria.
19  Hitler's original plan was to kill off all the German Jews.
20  The police rarely shoot to kill.
21  Many ants kill the horse.
22  I bought a spray to kill the weeds.
23  What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
24  Put disinfectant down the toilet to kill any germs.
25  The way we kill animals appals a lot of people.
26  Excessive tiredness while driving can kill.
27  My mother will kill me when she finds out what I've done.
28  You will kill the child with indulgence.
29  He produced a hand-written list of nine men he was supposed to kill.
30  Neanderthal man was able to kill woolly mammoths and bears.