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Example sentences for "being slain"

  • In the three worlds with all their mobile and immobile creatures, there is none who is incapable of being slain by this weapon.

  • It behoveth us to attain heaven either by gaining victory or being slain.

  • And that other great Asura also, Vali by name, was incapable of being slain by any one.

  • Encountering them in battle, either I shall slay them, or, being slain by them, my foes, I shall follow Bhishma.

  • Thereupon, all the kings beheld Paurava (standing helpless) with dishevelled hair, and looking like an ox deprived of its senses while on the point of being slain by a lion.

  • Possessed of the Vaishnava weapon, let my son become incapable of being slain by the gods and the Asuras.

  • As the intelligent Agastya had fixed this period as the limit of (the duration of) his curse, so being slain in conflict, the Rakshasas were freed from the imprecation.

  • They are called Hansa and Dimvaka who are both incapable of being slain by weapons.

  • Madhava, O thou of the Vrishni race, I am repeatedly depressed by the thought whether Jarasandha is capable or not of being slain by thee, by Rama, by Bhimasena, or by Arjuna.

  • Jarasandha had two supporters called Hansa and Dimvaka, both of whom were incapable of being slain by weapons.

  • Drona then, addressing the envious and wrathful Duryodhana and Dussasana and Karna and all the Bharata, said, 'The Brahamanas have said that the Pandavas being of celestial origin are incapable of being slain.

  • He was the first of the Greeks who fell, being slain by Hector as he leaped from the vessel (Hygin.

  • Nor did he repay to his dear parents the price of his early nurture, for his life was short, he being slain with a spear by magnanimous Ajax.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being about; being afraid; being again; being baptized; being deprived; being desirous; being destroyed; being duly; being engaged; being informed; being joined; being just; being kept; being late; being now; being prepared; being pressed; being questioned; being raised; being ready; being resolved; being separated; being subject; being true; being willing; could mean