How to Use kill off in a Sentence

kill off

verb

• We were being killed off in the scene and didn’t know it.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
• Tom Wood’s character was killed off near the end of the movie.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• As the team looked to kill off the game, FCD ventured forward late.
  — Dallas News, 7 May 2022
• And another chance to kill off the game went wanting in the 80th minute.
  — Dallas News, 30 July 2022
• The whole point of getting a fever is to slowly cook the sickness out of your body, killing off the pathogens in the process.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• Back in the old-timey days, killing off the star of a series was unthinkable.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
• That line was killed off and replaced with the Nest Audio speakers.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
• He’s killed off in a senseless way—some could even say his send-off was screwed up and random and mean.
  — TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
• Marine heat waves also speed up the melting of ice sheets and kill off fish stocks and wildlife.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 24 June 2023
• When’s the best time to kill off lawns for later ground cover planting?
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2022
• The airy emptiness of the platform has not, as predicted, killed off new life.
  — Alex Quicho, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
• Lead fishing sinkers and jigs, which are still legal in the state, kill off loons that ingest them.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
• But antibiotics kill off plenty of the good stuff, too.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
• So much so, that that phones have all but killed off the digital camera at this point.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024
• In the wake of the 2017 accusations against Spacey, he was fired from House of Cards, with his character killed off in the show.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2023
• The writers and Hall had planned to kill off the character early on in the revival season.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2022
• The first was fought in 1948, when Arab enemies sought to kill off a newborn state that barely had an army.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
• Today, after years of drought have killed off many firs, the pines are making a comeback.
  — Reed Parsell, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• That sounds like an easy challenge for a character who kills off hitmen the way most of us eat lunch.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• Once James Bond was given feelings, there was nothing to do but kill off Daniel Craig.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• There are no practical treatments to kill off the fungi that produce the mushrooms.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• No one can guarantee that the stuffing will get hot enough to kill off all the bacteria before the bird is done cooking.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 21 Sep. 2020
• Lear fired Amos after the third season, and his character was killed off in a car accident.
  — Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• The drone debuted in May 2022, but then the company officially killed off the Pixy in August of that year.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 3 Feb. 2024
• But Florida managed to kill off the four-minute penalty even with one of its top penalty-killing forwards.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
• Detroit only had three shots on goal in the period but managed to kill off two penalties.
  — Dana Gauruder, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• Then, his character got cruelly killed off on the season 2 finale of that series, and the ABC drama just wasn't the same.
  — Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2023
• The cast was diverse and changed frequently throughout the series as survivors got killed off, had children and went through time jumps.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
• Kia is killing off the Stinger after the 2023 model year, but not without a special edition to give the sporty hatchback a proper sendoff.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2023
• The underground plume of hot water drifts over time, killing off trees that previously grew in firm, dry soil.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024