killings

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Phrases with the word

Examples

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year. Ishmael Reed

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings. Muammar Gaddafi

As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich. Lewis H. Lapham

What's happened to us that we take killings for granted among our children? Don't give me that hogwash about students at college having to be treated as adults-there's nothing adult about playing with guns and grenades! John Brunner

After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves. Bartolomé de las Casas

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene. Christopher Darden