Either of the two main characters in "Pulp Fiction," professionally

Usage examples of killer.

Good or bad, saint or killer, Abraxas had taken their minds and swallowed them whole.

In a sense, the serial killers of the 1990s were the spiritual children of the hippies of the sixties, and their common ancestors would be the Viennese Actionists of the fifties.

But nowhere on the web page did it make mention of its most famous and notorious alumnus, Joel Rifkin, the most savage serial killer in New York State history.

I finally solved the all-time killer anagram, after more than a year of working at it in trains and buses and waiting rooms.

She might have to fly into Anchorage which, as the killer was most likely still in the Park, might not be a bad idea.

The killer who stalked the streets of Arista, the person who might make Shannon his next target, for one.

She got down on her hands and knees and crept from hiding place to hiding place, always keeping the bulk of a chest or an aumbry between herself and the killer.

A somersaulting shape, the pygmy killer was tossed beyond the crumbling mass of stone and dirt that entombed a dozen helpless people within the Aureole Mine.

The dark haired, square-jawed, handsome biker is the most prolific Canadian killer known.

Slowly, gloatingly the black man lifted it to his lips, and Vulmea knew winged death would strike him before he could reach the killer with his sword.

I was dreaming of Darwin again, dispatching killer girls around the universe, when Prang and Boudin knocked at my door.

The third went leaping after Buglet, pale path-seeker shafts hissing out of its killer eye.

I found myself arguing with some faceless audience in my mind--the Bunraku puppeteers, I suppose--insisting that, with all the precautions I had taken, I was more likely to be attacked by killer bees than to get pregnant.

Without that connection, Cade doubted he could have found the strength to free her and her sister, then distract the killers until both children could escape.

This type of killer usually premeditates his crimes, often fantasizing and planning the murder in every aspect, with the possible exception of the specific victim.