How to Use slaying in a Sentence

slaying

noun

• The couple had three children, all under the age of 6 at the time of the slaying.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• Davis is charged in the Sunday slaying of 60-year-old Stoney Lewis.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 8 Sep. 2023
• The slaying appeared to be the second in a Silver Spring garage in eight months.
  — Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
• Prystash and Guidry were also sent to death row for the slaying.
  — Juan A. Lozano, Chron, 10 Jan. 2023
• This time Scott and Springsteen both confessed to the slayings.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• Daniel Scott Jordan faces 16 years to life in prison for the slaying of Kevin Powell, 38.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
• Rediger said the motive for the slaying is still unclear.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
• No arrests had been made in the slaying as of Saturday evening.
  — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
• In the PnB Rock slaying, two new suspects are charged with robbery and helping a suspect flee the state.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Miller and Jermey Goodale, also 16 at the time of the slaying, were charged as adults with first-degree murder.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 6 July 2023
• They are accused of the July 2 slaying of Tireese Martin-Croom, 17.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• By Monday evening, police had not made an arrest in the slaying.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• Andrews was shot to death, in a slaying that stunned the community.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 20 June 2024
• As of Saturday, police had not named a suspect in the slaying.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2023
• No one has ever been charged with the slayings credited to the Zodiac Killer, and the case is still open today.
  — Jessica Sager, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
• The affidavit also said male DNA left on a knife sheath was used to link Kohberger with the slayings.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The last two men charged in connection with a 2015 gas station slaying were sentenced last week.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2023
• He was arrested again in August and charged with her slaying.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2024
• The sharpened end came to a rest in one of the ribs, crushing the bone and leaving the telltale rounded crater the scientists used to reconstruct the slaying.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• The new sentence will run concurrent to his two life sentences from the slayings, Harpootlian said.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Durst was sentenced to life in prison in 2021 for Berman's killing, and he was indicted that same year in the slaying of McCormack.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
• Police eventually traced the slayings to the followers of Charles Manson, who used the victims' blood to write messages on the walls of the home.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
• Shoaf later confessed her part in the slaying and led investigators to the crime scene.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
• She was booked into Ellis County Jail the night of the slayings and has a total bail of $10 million, according to records.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
• In 1984, Hunt was arrested for the murder of Ron Levin, an investor in the group, and later convicted of his slaying.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
• The car had been parked in Solis’ driveway, an arrest affidavit states, and was moved after the slaying.
  — Matt Cohen, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
• The shocking case was in the news again earlier this summer when the killer, Alyssa Bustamante, who was 15 at the time of the slaying, was denied a chance at parole.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
• Beard still faces a murder charge in Dallas County in connection with the slaying.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 7 July 2023
• In July 2022, Campbell was found guilty of second-degree murder in the slaying.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• Their slayings followed the July 26 fatal shooting of the mayor of Manta, Ecuador’s third largest city.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024