KILL in a Sentence

Learn KILL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for KILL, such as:
1. Work won't kill but worry will.
2. He had hated them enough to kill one.
3. Ah hope Ah done kill dat black baboon.
4. Work will not kill a man but worry will.
5. Dogs that run after many hares kill none.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of KILL
kill
 n.  the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
 v.  end or extinguish by forceful means
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  And he said frankly that another baby would kill her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  Or if Aunt Pitty-- but the shock would kill Pitty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  Ah hope Ah done kill dat black baboon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  He had hated them enough to kill one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No one believed he would actually kill himself.
2  Dogs that run after many hares kill none.
3  These are the cells that directly attack and kill micro-organisms.
4  He thought he had better track this wolf and kill it.
5  If I had known my life was going to turn out like this, I would have let them kill me.
6  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
7  Don't kill yourself trying to get the work done by tomorrow.
8  The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
9  Work will not kill a man but worry will.
10  Work won't kill but worry will.
11  The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
12  The court heard how she and her lover hatched a plot to kill her husband.
13  This gun is designed for one purpose—it's basically to kill people.
14  The hijackers threatened to kill one passenger every hour if their demands were not met.
15  He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him.