Example Sentences

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Will, rather than being deprived, simply had very particular rules about what he would eat, and whether or not his diet was killing him didn’t necessarily mean he was mentally incompetent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

“Imagine a windfarm was killing 184 million birds a year, that would be a wholly unacceptable situation. So why is it ok to kill all these fish?” he said.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

“The timeline should be as soon as possible, because heat was killing workers yesterday,” said Renee Guerrero Deleon, an organizer at the Southern California Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

By 2022, it had reached North America and South America and was killing wild and domestic animals, including livestock and marine mammals.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024

My future died with Jesse, and I was killing time while the rest of the world caught up.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson