What's the difference between blay and slay?

Blay


Definition:

  • (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ukip acts immediately in circumstances such as these.” In the footage, Blay is heard to express his frustration with suggestions that Jayawardena has a bright political career ahead of him and especially at the possibility that he could rise to be Britain’s first prime minister of Asian descent.
  • (2) If he is, I will personally put a bullet between his eyes,” says Blay.
  • (3) It makes me quite sick,” said Blay of the situation.
  • (4) Footage of Blay’s exchange with a Daily Mirror reporter , which reportedly took place outside an event at which the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, was speaking, was posted on the newspaper’s website on Tuesday evening.
  • (5) In the video, Blay said: “He’s planned the birth of the child, there’s no doubt about that”.
  • (6) I hope to contribute positively to our country by representing my community – the community in which I grew up – in parliament.” In the footage, Blay is heard attacking Jayawardena’s heritage, saying: “His family have only been here since the 70s.
  • (7) In an expletive-laden rant, Robert Blay said the Conservative party’s candidate in North East Hampshire, Ranil Jayawardena, was “not British enough to be in our parliament” and accused him of timing the birth of his child to coincide with the general election.
  • (8) A Ukip spokesman said: “Mr Blay has been suspended with immediate effect.

Slay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are small-state Conservatives who believe the commercial world should provide.” Bryant, whose campaign against phone hacking won an award and who has a cartoon of himself as Luke Skywalker slaying the Sith lords Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks on his office wall, said the rumoured return of Brooks to News UK, if it happened, would be a “massive two fingers to the British public”.
  • (2) The film's most chilling image, revealed later on in flashback, is of the tiny Li'l Dice returning to the motel alone and gleefully slaying everyone inside.
  • (3) Perhaps it is the proximity of comedy and aggression (comics like to "slay" or "kill" their audiences, after all) that makes it strangely appropriate to see Sandler showing a more serious and volatile side.
  • (4) vale (@r4ulsonfeels) IM GOING TO SELL MY SOUL TO SATAN FOR GILLIAN AS THE FIRST FEMALE BOND HAPPEN May 21, 2016 charlotte✨ (@bensonscully) @GillianA OK BUT ALSO IDRIS ELBA CAN BE JAMES BOND AND YOU CAN BE JANE BOND AND YOU CAN SLAY EVERYONE May 21, 2016 Kelley Sublett (@Kel_Sub) @felishacarolle And now that someone has put the idea out there...GIVE ME A FEMALE BOND STAT!
  • (5) "Those [from the UK] on the temporary employment register are there for a reason, usually negative," wrote Chris Slay, director of another firm, Skills Provision, in a newsletter to clients .
  • (6) Cain slayed Abel for being more favoured by God than he.
  • (7) This gives the state easy demons to portray and then slay.
  • (8) And now there is a national development plan to slay the three-headed dragon of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
  • (9) The only real difference between Adam and Eve's kids and Marion and Ralph's over-achieving sons is that while the first murderer (Cain) slew Abel because, according to Genesis, the latter was favoured by God, David might have to slay Ed for being favoured by Labour party members.
  • (10) But traders were also cheered that Shinzo Abe promised no let-up in in his drive to stimulate economic growth and slay inflation: In a video message released after his cabiet approved his economic plans, Abe declared: The growth strategy decided today will be the starting point.
  • (11) But the symbolic slaying was a draw, by the hand of tiny New Zealand, of whom nothing was expected.
  • (12) His big-game-slaying holiday was estimated to cost €10,000 (£8,000) a day, with a Syrian businessman close to the Saudi royal family rumoured to be picking up the tab.
  • (13) Rather than explore dungeons slaying and looting, the game put you in charge of the dungeon, digging out new rooms and populating them with monsters and traps.
  • (14) While the passersby and pedestrians you slay out of mission will occasionally drop money, it would be hard to argue that the game rewards you for indiscriminate slaughter.
  • (15) There has been very little research done on family slayings in the RSA.
  • (16) Memorial was forced to close its Grozny office after the 2009 slaying of activist and board member Natalya Estemirova , who was personally investigating “hundreds” of highly sensitive cases of kidnapping and murder.
  • (17) The peculiar thing about the opera is that the back story – war, slayings, the murder of the Irish princess Isolde's betrothed by the Cornish knight Tristan, her determination to kill the latter, her failure to do so, the way she healed Tristan's wounds and kept his identity secret – is more interesting than the story itself, which revolves around the pair not quite being able to make love despite drinking a love potion (substituted by Isolde's lady-in-waiting Brangäne for the poison with which Isolde intended to kill both Tristan and herself as they journeyed to Cornwall, where she was to marry boring old King Marke).
  • (18) The anniversary of the shootings and how it will impact the victims' families has weighed heavily on Gerald Massengill, who led a governor-appointed panel that investigated the slayings.
  • (19) Ebel is also a suspect in the slaying of a Colorado pizza deliveryman who disappeared from work and whose body was found Sunday evening.
  • (20) Beyoncé’s use of “slay” is an additional embrace of the language of the black queer community and, in its repetition, it’s an incantation that can slay haters, slay patriarchy, to slay white supremacy.

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