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Example sentences for "would kill"

  • I throw the biggest to the floor, a man; he is older than I am, and I hit him so hard I would kill him.

  • The remainder of that gun's crew took their place in line, and the major promised York there would be no more delays in the surrenders if he would kill no more of them.

  • Huff told Brooks that the next time they met he would kill him.

  • On the return of his master, the waiting man told him what had been done: this threw him into a violent passion; he swore he would kill Luke, or lose his own life.

  • If the General heard that my name was Marcandal, he would kill me at once as if I were a mad dog.

  • May he fail to do so; he would kill us, for I am telling him in this letter the fatal secret of your birth which compels me thus to leave him.

  • Ferdinand If you did this, I would kill myself.

  • You know that he is so jealous that he would kill a man on suspicion.

  • If I had him now, I think I would kill him," he said.

  • And I said that if he ever spoke of it to any one, I would kill him.

  • Then Kalbach cried aloud that he would kill him.

  • And if they ever came out, it would kill my husband.

  • People prophesied that he would kill himself; but he kept on day after day, and had not even a cold until February.

  • It would kill me if you were," Rose whispered.

  • It seems as if it would kill me jest to think of it," sobbed Sarah Barnard, turning tremulously away.

  • Ah, doctor, if my mother should die, I believe it would kill my mistress.

  • He is so dear to me, I believe it would kill me to give him up, and see him no more.

  • The headman said that he would kill Noma; Noma said that he would bewitch the headman.

  • For it was my duty, day by day, to choose that place where the king should sit to hear the counsel of his indunas, and give judgment on those whom he would kill, and to-day I had chosen this place.

  • At first I thought that I would kill him, lest he should betray me; but when I called to him to knock him on the head with my kerrie, he sat down upon the ground wagging his tail, and seemed to smile in my face, and I could not do it.

  • Perhaps he would kill me; well, what did it matter?

  • This cattle-killer said he would kill me in the Council because he had not killed me when I was a cub.

  • Shere Khan said he would kill--would kill!

  • At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog!

  • Pa scowled at Ma as though he would kill her.

  • Well, I should think he would kill you," said the grocery man.

  • I saw Painter beating a negro with a tremendous club, or small handspike, swearing he would kill him: but he was rescued by Morgan and Siglar.

  • One of his threats was that he would horsewhip Judge Field, and that if he resented it he would kill him.

  • There is now indisputable proof that Terry had made repeated threats that he would assault Justice Field the first time he met him off the bench, and that if the Judge resisted he would kill him.

  • He could not endure such a death as that, he said, and he would kill himself, therefore, at once, if they would give him a dagger.

  • Nero then gave the dagger to one of the men standing by, and begged that he would kill him.

  • He said that he would kill himself as they desired.

  • I believe I would kill him, if necessary.

  • There, read first: 'If I thought Mark Abrams loved her, I would kill him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would kill" 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:
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