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Example sentences for "been killed"

  • I notified General Lee of my purpose and of the situation, when he sent me a message, telling me that Hill's lines had been broken, and that General Hill himself had been killed.

  • General Stone, observing this, ordered that the battery be withdrawn to save it from capture; but it was found that this was impossible, because nearly all the horses had been killed.

  • Had half of us been killed, I suppose more would have been thought of the affair.

  • Had you not come up, we should every one of us been killed.

  • The calm continued, allowing time to repair damages, and to commit the poor fellows who had been killed to the deep.

  • Can't imagine, unless he's been killed or captured.

  • If we don't come back they'll list us as missing, and no one will know whether we've run away, been killed or captured.

  • But the tide of battle had swept over the region and the French farmers had either been killed or had left their homesteads.

  • Some of my men turned them over with their feet, to see how they'd been killed, and then I had to go away.

  • In the British division, one officer and one man had been killed, and three officers and sixty-five men wounded.

  • Had he been killed, in trying to make his way down?

  • Four of them fell in the assaults at El Obeid, two at Baria, and the last two have now been killed.

  • A psychologist would have been interested to see that nobody ever spoke of a comrade as having died or been killed, but had "gone west.

  • All the time I was at the front, I never heard one of our men say that another had been killed.

  • From the A Company stretcher-bearers came news that others had been killed.

  • But these people did not retire as they should have done, for a report was heard that Kawiti had been killed or taken, and this enraged them so much that they would not retreat, and they remained there trying to retake the pa.

  • Had he been killed in what they considered an unjust manner, they would have revenged his death at any cost; but I have no doubt they themselves were glad to get rid of him, for he was a terror to all about him.

  • All the wealth of wild life which Baldwin saw in this same district in 1854 had melted away before the guns of the native Amatonga hunters; for, be it noted, this is a country in which but very little game has been killed by white men.

  • I'm afraid they wouldn't have missed you, Julius, if you'd been killed.

  • Indeed, from what I hear I fear that the Arabs have long ere this carried them off into captivity, or that, deprived of their protector, they have died of hunger or been killed by their cruel persecutors.

  • The following year in London I heard by accident that poor Johnny Johnson had been killed a few weeks after our trip.

  • I did not know then that anybody had been hit by it, but I learned afterwards that the officer, the stretcher-bearers and the Germans had all been killed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been killed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been away; been captured; been decreed; been done; been found; been given; been guilty; been havin; been married; been more; been obliged; been revealed; been seen; been shot; been sitting; been talkin; been the; been thinking; been through; been used; been wanting; been written; brief statement; brother said; make myself; three onions