How to Use kill off in a Sentence
kill off
verb-
After three successful seasons, Amos was killed off the show in a move that shocked viewers.
— Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024 -
In the Season 4 premiere, James was killed off in a car accident.
— Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2024 -
But the bill was killed off in the Republican-majority House this year.
— Melissa Cruz, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024 -
Lear fired him at the end of the show’s third season in 1976, going so far as to kill off the character in one of the most controversial and hard-hitting sitcom episodes of the decade.
— Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024 -
Rising global temperatures, various diseases, and coastal development have been killing off the world’s coral reefs, iconic ecosystems that support as much as a quarter of all marine life.
— Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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