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Flain


Definition:

  • () p. p. of Flay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's all smart pale pine inside, and there's a free shuttle bus to the gondola, which accesses the linked areas of Grand Massif, Flaine, Samoëns, Morillon and Sixt.

Slain


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Slay

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (2) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
  • (3) Facebook posts about slain members appeared soon after.
  • (4) Groups of women from outside the city arrived bearing photos of their relatives, slain victims of femicide.
  • (5) The Spanish forward showed good determination to beat Amorebieta to James Milner's long ball into the box but looked as though he had been slain by an assassin's bullet when he got there.
  • (6) Much earlier, he was the mole finally unmasked by Sir Alec Guinness and slain by Ian Bannen in John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
  • (7) The charismatic daughter of the slain hero of Burma's campaign for independence from Britain has a huge international following.
  • (8) He said all embassy workers were now safe and offered his condolences to the family of the slain guard.
  • (9) The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a charity created after 11 September 2001, has said it will pay off the home mortgages of the two slain officers.
  • (10) On Sunday, he said neighbours saw two funerals for slain fighters, one with four bodies and one with two.
  • (11) That’s where we as a country were 50 years ago, as civil rights organizers prepared to march the 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery to honor the recently slain church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson and all the other nonviolent activists shot and killed by police and white vigilantes.
  • (12) Contemporaneous accounts report his body was found among others slain, a halter was thrown around his neck, his naked body was slung over a horse with head, arms and legs dangling, and he was bought to a church in Leicester and irreverently buried.
  • (13) There were few professional athletes more demonstrative in their disgust with the fatal shooting of the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin two years ago than LeBron James, who protested by convincing his Miami teammates to pose for a special photograph donning hoodies like the one Martin wore when he was slain, then told his tens of millions of fans on social media: We Want Justice .
  • (14) Two early recorded instances of dental identification of men slain in battle during the fifteenth century are given.
  • (15) According to one investigation, between January and September 2009 more than 1,400 civilians were slain in the provinces of North and South Kivu, at least 701 by the FDLR and the rest by Congolese and Rwandan government-allied forces.
  • (16) Yesterday Novak Djokovic, the four-time champion, was slain at last by the magnificent Stanislas Wawrinka - what a backhand on him, eh - and today one of Andy Murray or Federer is bound to follow.
  • (17) The story called “ That’s my boy: kids witness war’s horror ” was about Khaled Sharrouf’s Australian son holding up the decapitated head of a slain Syrian soldier.
  • (18) And baby turkeys were slain, their limbs torn apart,” the Dallas Morning News reported at the time.
  • (19) I saw my mother’s dead body two days ago,” said Naimul Khan, son of the slain Nazma Khanam.
  • (20) Children pull T-shirts to their noses and mouths so they don't retch but cannot resist peering at the slain young men.

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