Example Sentences

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It’s an absolute certainty that TB, malaria and dysentery will have killed more than 2,000 people in those three countries over the past 8 months.

From Forbes • Sep. 5, 2014

This nation, if ever it completely stifles the initiative of Glenn McCarthy and of men like him, will have killed its last major, claim to being a free, competitive economy .

From Time Magazine Archive

The cold will have killed the spiders by now, thought Jon, and the rats may be a useful source of meat come winter.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

If he is the man you suppose him to be, the wound his self-love got will have killed his love; and if he is the man I think, no hunters will make him their prey.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

Now the stocked pond will not be long in filling itself with gases unfit to breathe, with putrid effluvia and other animal refuse; it will become a sink in which life will have killed life.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander