[
US
/ˈsɫeɪɪŋ/
]
[ UK /slˈeɪɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /slˈeɪɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
How To Use slaying In A Sentence
- It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign. Barbarossa
- Both victims' estates have filed claims for punitive damages, which are designed to punish the killer and deter future slayings.
- The most serious allegation against him involved the November 1998 slaying of three men at an automobile body shop in Montebello.
- But the chiefs still practised the old ways, the custom of hunakele, and hid the bones of the aliis where no men should find them and make fish-hooks of their jaws or arrow heads of their long bones for the slaying of little mice in sport. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
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- Now the vanished figure is the chief investigator in that slaying, Pablo Chapa Bezanilla.
- A 26-year-old man was charged for the brutal slayings.
- But slaying an ancient immortal changed his heart, and he walked away from the sword about 1500 years ago.
- Initially, the reports of the slayings were largely unnoticed.
- Above the two in the roundel is another Saint Michael bravely slaying a fire-breathing dragon. The Wayward Muse