Use them to find the murderer and for the first time in his long career he would not kill cleanly or quickly.

Someday I may teach you how to kill cleanly, in the dark.

The light ball of the pistol might only wound and not kill cleanly.

Kill cleanly, or the subsequent shots into heart and lungs seem to be without effect.

As I said before, the blade's not quite long enough to kill cleanly, so the incident was very messy.

I prefer that men be killed cleanly and easily.

They did not kill cleanly, granting their victims noble deaths.

You can't kill cleanly with it, but it's good for emergencies.

"It is better to kill cleanly," he said, finally.

As he had instructed, they quickly and cleanly killed any who would otherwise have died a lingering, agonizing death from their injuries.