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Example sentences for "kill the"

  • And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water.

  • Did not he kill the giant, and take away reproach from his people?

  • But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.

  • David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to kill the Lord's anointed?

  • To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart.

  • I departed alone carrying with me the bitter regret that I had not been able to kill the monster, whose despotism had crushed me.

  • But there can be no doubt that you wanted to kill the postillion.

  • In spite of his thirty additional years I was a tolerable match for him, and when we were in a room there was no question of gaining to kill the time.

  • They had cried, with one accord, "Kill the nigger!

  • No; not until he attempted to kill the turnkey, who took his food to him.

  • It was not I who wished to kill the Jew," said Caderousse; "it was La Carconte.

  • Do you find the means, I will execute it, provided it is not to kill the man, for Mercedes has declared she will kill herself if Dantes is killed.

  • Kill me, then; kill your own brother before you kill the others!

  • There is enough in that thing to kill the men of all my city.

  • THAT was all arranged, and the only thing now was to kill the Wolf-child.

  • And the man replied, "My brother has the delirium tremens, and I have brought this mongoose so he can use it to kill the snakes.

  • But with all of his tact and logic he could not make his colleagues see that to abolish the kingly office, not to kill the individual, was the thing desired.

  • Twice, when David had a chance to kill the king, he forbore to harm him; but even then, Saul continued trying to take his life, and David was kept away from his home as if he were an enemy.

  • And still more and more, till it was like an army of black, hopping, crawling crickets, streaming down the side of the mountain to kill the crops.

  • The men tried to kill the crickets by beating them down, but the numbers were so great that it was like beating at the sea.

  • Kill the lad, and sprinkle his blood like water!

  • During the time of his exile, the relations of him that was slain may, by this law, kill the manslayer, if they caught him without the bounds of the city to which he fled, though this permission was not granted to any other person.

  • Roused to desperation by their losses, the mob surged through the doorway, trampling upon their fallen comrades, screaming "Kill the Huguenots!

  • The first real work is to kill the heathen or steal their lands, or else reduce them to something like slavery.

  • Jehovah seemed to think that crime was in the blood; that it was not sufficient to kill the criminal, but to prevent future crimes you should kill his wife and babes.

  • If I had, I should not feel that I was guilty of trying to kill the President.

  • There is therefore no form of words here forbidding to "kill the king.

  • Why, for example, was it not said, that the first and chief branch of treason was to "kill the king?

  • They work their land thoroughly and kill the weeds.

  • It is a great deal better to kill the weeds.

  • Mr. Lawes plowed the land twice every year; and the crop was hoed once or twice in the spring to kill the weeds.

  • Unless we drain land, where drainage is needed, and unless we work land thoroughly that needs working, and unless we kill the weeds or check their excessive growth, it is poor economy to sow expensive manures on our wheat-crops.

  • I would plow the wheat stubble immediately after harvest, and harrow and cultivate it to kill the weeds, and then, six weeks or two months later, I would plow it again.

  • France through her leaders is lending her name to training Cannibals as soldiers and is shamelessly betraying her trust as a mandatory power by trying to kill the spirit of the Syrians.

  • The latter merely destroyed a few bodies but the others tried to kill the soul of a nation.

  • Let us however examine the adjectives used by His Excellency to kill the movement by laughing at it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kill the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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