How do you use Killed in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Killed in a sentence
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Killed meaning
simple past and past participle of kill
Using Killed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of kill
- In the example corpus, killed often appears in combinations such as: killed in, were killed, killed by.
Context around Killed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Killed
- In this selection, "killed" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, peter, palestinians, poisoning, paul, two and pavla stand out and add context to how "killed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 12 palestinians killed bybtte idf, 17 was killed by idf, people killed, reportedly killed and killed dozens. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "killed" sits close to words such as act, father and increase, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with killed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Alcohol poisoning killed five people, cocaine killed four people and methamphetamine killed two people. (14 words)
If you came to my house, killed me, and then killed my wife and kids too. (16 words)
Belgrade also claims at least one of the killed insurgents was executed after he was injured, rather than killed in the fighting. (22 words)
At least two other American citizens have been killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7. Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour, 17, was killed by IDF troops in February, and Tawfic Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, 17, was killed by Israeli fire in January. (41 words)
Additionally, the Israeli military official noted that they are on a “manhunt” – both for the terrorist who killed the brothers Hallel Menachem Yaniv and Yigal Yaakov Yaniv and the person who shot and killed Palestinian man Sameh Aktash during the riots. (41 words)
I assured them that the people who killed the DPO, who think they are above the law, must be brought to book because anybody who killed a police officer or security operatives has killed the people who put them together. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
For example, to change "Peter killed Paul" to "Paul was killed by Peter" the order of subject and object is inverted: Petr zabil Pavla ("Peter killed Paul") becomes "Paul, Peter killed" (Pavla zabil Petr).
Alcohol poisoning killed five people, cocaine killed four people and methamphetamine killed two people.
Evidence of how the Palestinian terrorists, dressed for combat and armed with knives, guns and grenades, entered civilian homes and killed their Jewish prey: “They killed babies in front of their parents and then killed the parents.
At least two other American citizens have been killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7. Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour, 17, was killed by IDF troops in February, and Tawfic Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, 17, was killed by Israeli fire in January.
I assured them that the people who killed the DPO, who think they are above the law, must be brought to book because anybody who killed a police officer or security operatives has killed the people who put them together.
Both Janjalani and Marwan were killed by government forces in separate encounters: Janjalani was killed in Patikul, Sulu in 2006 while Marwan was killed in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in 2015.
Additionally, the Israeli military official noted that they are on a “manhunt” – both for the terrorist who killed the brothers Hallel Menachem Yaniv and Yigal Yaakov Yaniv and the person who shot and killed Palestinian man Sameh Aktash during the riots.
Another eight soldiers were killed when resistance fighters used heavy explosives and firearms to attack regime forces loading the bodies of killed and injured soldiers into vehicles at the ambush site.
Anti-occupation forces and insurgents killed 9%, post-invasion criminal violence accounted for 36% of all deaths, and the remainder were killed by “unknown agents”.
Belgrade also claims at least one of the killed insurgents was executed after he was injured, rather than killed in the fighting.
Elsewhere, police are said to be treating a crash in Halifax that killed a 19-year-old man and a pile-up on the M4 that killed two women, both on Friday, as being related to the inclement weather conditions.
For every Jewish Israeli killed by a Palestinian pre October 7th there have been 12 Palestinians killed bybtte IDF and their settlers allies.
He was killed neither by Man or animal; was killed at dusk which was neither night nor day; and was throttled when he was raised off the ground.
If you came to my house, killed me, and then killed my wife and kids too.
In central Gaza's Al-Maghazi district, five Palestinians were killed in one air strike, medics said, while to the north in Gaza City health officials said the bodies of seven Palestinians killed overnight arrived at Al Shifa Hospital.
It is quite common for alligators to be killed for their skin and commercial purposes, but as crazy as it may sound, alligators are also killed for their meat.
More than 900 people have been killed in Israel, according to the Israeli military, with authorities in Gaza saying about 700 had been killed in the territory and the West Bank, with dozens more taken hostage by Hamas.
On May 3 a teenage boy killed nine pupils and a security guard in Belgrade in the first school mass shooting in Serbia, and a day later a 21-year-old man killed eight outside the city.
Roberta Metsola Twitter Emotional moment today as I laid flowers on behalf of the people of Europe to remember all those killed - including Yuriy Ruf, who was killed by Russian mortars on 1 April.
She killed three children and three adults over the course of her shooting rampage before a team of law enforcement officers who responded to the scene shot and killed her.
Phrases with killed
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with killed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- killed in 103×
- were killed 58×
- killed by 54×
- was killed 51×
- been killed 33×
- and killed 25×
- killed and 16×
- that killed 13×
- be killed 12×
- people killed 11×