Examples of 'they had been killed' in a sentence

Meaning of "they had been killed"

they had been killed - suggests that a group of individuals were previously murdered or lost their lives due to a specific event or circumstance

How to use "they had been killed" in a sentence

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they had been killed
They had been killed three days earlier.
Knew where they had been killed.
They had been killed for being accused of practising witchcraft.
We all thought that they had been killed.
They had been killed by our gunfire.
Do you know whether they had been killed.
They had been killed innocently.
It was clear that they had been killed.
They had been killed by a shot to the head with a striking pin.
The bodies remained where they had been killed.
I guess they had been killed or wounded.
They all looked like they had been killed.
They had been killed by shrapnel and gunfire in various parts of the governorate.
The journalist asserted that they had been killed by police officers.
They had been killed by shotgun blasts at close range after being bound and gagged.

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It turns out that they knew immediately that they had been killed.
He concluded that they had been killed by cars and mutilated by foxes.
Well, either they had escaped or they had been killed.
It was believed they had been killed the night before the blaze.
There was no way to communicate with them, because they had been killed.
You did not know if they had been killed or whether they had become prisoners.
Three others were missing, and he believed that they had been killed in the clash.
They had been killed by local Britishmen.
Neither was there any question that they had been killed with his knife.
They had been killed by the Aborigines.
He had no idea whether they had been killed by a Georgian or a Russian bomb.
They had been killed because they believed Gods word and said they believed it.
Later I would hear that they had been killed.
He believed that they had been killed in the confrontation with the Army.
Without any dead bodies, the government could deny they had been killed.
I was a Protestant and I realised that they had been killed simply because they were Protestants.
Elijah knew little about the remnant of grace, other than that they had been killed.
And so for me, it was as if they had been killed a second time.
They had been killed at the Plötzensee prison, which is in western Berlin.
The Israeli police suspected that they had been killed by Palestinian " terrorists ".
They had been killed by Georgian snipers using large-caliber sniper rifles.
Others, he said, because they had been killed in combat.
They had been killed by Cheyenne and / or Sioux Indians.
Just like that it was gone--meaning they had been killed.
I saw where they had been killed by just one ground-to-ground missile.
Butchered bones found in 2011 with stone tools suggested that they had been killed by humans.
They had been killed in 1997 by Chechen fighters and their house had been occupied.
On 24 March a paramilitary informed their family that they had been killed.
They had been killed by ISIL shortly after the Fall of Mosul in June 2014.
I don't know, sir. I guess they had been killed or wounded.

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