How to Use kill off in a Sentence

kill off

verb

• Seal items that can't be washed in plastic bags for two weeks to kill off the lice.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2024
• With more moisture in the air, strands can puff up like cotton candy while sweat kills off any volume at the roots.
  — Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 30 July 2024
• 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
• But does that mean he's being killed off the ABC drama?
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 30 May 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
• As an annual weed, crabgrass is killed off by the first frost.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 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
• The rise of streaming services like Netflix, Max and Disney+ was supposed to kill off cable.
  — Joel Mathis, theweek, 23 May 2024
• After dropping the third set, La Costa Canyon took an 11-5 lead on Magnin’s kill off the block in transition.
  — Tim Meehan and Breven Honda, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
• Google did the same thing to its Google Fit product in 2019, killing off the more powerful website in favor of an app focus.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 June 2024
• The rising water levels due to climate change are also killing off cherry trees that line the basin.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 30 June 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

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024