Example Sentences

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BF: "Maya was my favorite! She was so good but she was so funny, too. She was trying to sound like Mariah Carey and she was slaying."

From The Verge • Dec. 6, 2015

When H. L. Mencken was slaying dragons with his weekly column in the Baltimore Sun, he seldom spoke well of politicians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crawford was slaying dragons with the best of them-unheard of at the time for a Right Coaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead it was Lehrer who was slaying the customers last week at San Francisco's hungry i, where he proved to be the nightclub's biggest draw since the Limelighters played there in 1959.

From Time Magazine Archive

He thought the flocks and herds of the Greeks were the Army, and rushed to kill them, believing that he was slaying now this chieftain, now that.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton