How to Use slay in a Sentence

slay

verb

• The knight slew the dragon.
• That thing would absolutely slay in the back of the Uber on the way out for the night.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2022
• The girls were found slain near the creek in February 2017.
  — Liam Quinn, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• All three were found slain in a garage Sunday in the 4700 block of West Burleigh Street.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2020
• Scores of priests were slain during the mass killing of civilians.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• Ahead of this year’s fest, THR looks back on five green looks that slayed.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2023
• Finally, the story came to the point where the imam was slain.
  — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
• This is finally the time the Padres slay the dragon up north, the mighty Dodgers.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2022
• Somehow, those mistakes — and a muffed punt return — weren’t enough to slay Lawrence and the Jaguars.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• Can the David become a true Goliath by slaying the titans of the game?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• Soleimani was slain in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2023
• Zendaya slayed the red carpet with not one, but two looks.
  — Lauryn Jiles, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• Play this one real loud and bounce into the weekend ready to slay.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2022
• Who will sashay away and who will live to slay another day?
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
• So, who will sashay away and who will live to slay another day?
  — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2022
• The best teams have people who have a high drive to achieve, to hit the grand slam, slay the dragon, or complete the Hail Mary pass.
  — Jeanet Wade, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Comics such as Chris Rock and Billy Crystal used to slay.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 Apr. 2021
• Now he’s entered the labyrinth but has yet to slay the Minotaur within.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
• So, the outcome should be easy: Rollins slaying Omos with a massive Stomp.
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• O'Sullivan was a family friend of Reinhart's, and one of the slain boys had been a Gators batboy.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 18 June 2024
• The Knights of Columbus have slayed the clam chowder-making recipe.
  — cleveland, 31 Aug. 2023
• For the first time ever, the finale featured all women in its lineup — the Harp and the Lambs — and these ladies came to slay.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• Pair it with long, silky waves and a smokey glam makeup look to slay the night away in true King Kylie fashion.
  — Nitya Rao, Seventeen, 5 Aug. 2022
• There are so many cute hairstyles that anyone can slay in no time.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
• Democrats were never the dragons Trump needed to slay, though.
  — Dahleen Glanton, Twin Cities, 18 Dec. 2019
• Three men have been arrested in the death of a 18-year-old found slain on a southeast Oak Cliff road last month.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Majestic King who reigns over all, slay with great love all the shadows around me.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
• Then came a beast that could not be slayed, a joke that elicited only silence.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• The city, part of the Bozeman metropolitan area, is about 45 miles directly north from where he was found slain.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
• Both weapons would actually kill zombies — by cutting off their heads or carving out their hearts, two of only three ways the creatures could be slain — rather than simply sprinkling them with medium-hot corn salsa.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024