KILLED in a Sentence

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For KILLED, below is one of 420 sentences:
The war didn't seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killed men senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.

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 Meanings and Examples of KILLED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kill
 v.  cause the death of
killing
 n.  the act of terminating a life
 a.  very funny
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If she could have killed him, she would have done it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Except for the ever-present torment that Ashley might be killed, the war interested her not at all, and nursing was something she did simply because she didn't know how to get out of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  The war didn't seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killed men senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  And get killed for your pains.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  That terrific scandal concerning the Charleston girl he had compromised and the brother he had killed was public property.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  But hideous rumors that Lee was killed, the battle lost, and enormous casualty lists coming in, fled up and down the quiet streets like darting bats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  "And have him get killed," said Scarlett shortly, thinking of Darcy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  "It would be better to have a son even if he did get killed than to never have one," said Melanie and gulped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Scarlett, I have nightmares when I think what might happen to her if I were killed and she had no one to turn to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  The first reports were "Missing--believed killed" and so they appeared on the casualty list.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  He had conducted the retreat in masterly fashion, for they had lost few men and the Yankees killed and captured ran high.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  These men hoped to equip themselves from killed and captured Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  "I'm glad you killed him," said Melanie her gentle eyes hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  And they dragged Mother out and killed her about twenty feet from where I was lying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  She ordered the calf killed, because he drank so much of the precious milk, and that night everyone ate so much fresh veal all of them were ill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Many innocent civilians were killed during the war.
17  A federal marshal was killed in a shoot-out.
18  The hero was killed in the final reel.
19  Doctors are now able to cure people of many diseases which in former times would have killed them.
20  Thousands were killed on the eastern front.
21  The ignition of methane gas killed eight men.
22  A girl was killed yesterday in a crash involving a stolen car.
23  It is a bullet from the same gun that killed the Italian.
24  I nearly killed myself carrying that suitcase all the way here.
25  Tragedy struck the family when their three-year-old son was hit by a car and killed.
26  She is full of hatred for the men who killed her husband.
27  A boy was run over by a truck and got killed immediately.
28  The taxi pranged up a truck and the driver got killed immediately.
29  All on the plane were killed, including the pilot.
30  Six people were killed in the riot, including a policeman.