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Sect members returned fire and for four days had the run of the town in a killing spree.
But he hadn't come here to go on a killing spree.
He then went on a killing spree and burned down the city.
The man went on a killing spree with the gun.
It was even possible that the killing spree had started in Charlotte.
Smith goes on a killing spree with the kris, which seems to have a life of its own.
After escaping from there, he goes on a killing spree at the police station.
A year and a half after his release, he went on the killing spree.
The killing spree started in the morning and went on till afternoon.
Thirty years earlier, the seven had lived through a similar killing spree in the small town.
Athletics problems are sticky wickets that must be confronted with a sustained effort.
Which means he's batting on a very sticky wicket.
Heavy rain fell overnight, and next day the pitch soon developed into a traditional sticky wicket.
The full phrase is thought to have originally been "to bat on a sticky wicket."
Morris won the toss and elected to bat on a sticky wicket.
The following day, the pitch dried out under the hot sun and turned into a sticky wicket.
Actually, this one turns out to be a sticky wicket (as they say, um, somewhere, I think).
Play resumed only 10 minutes late the next day, but "England were twice caught on sticky wickets.
On such sticky wickets his return of 14 for 43 beat Hampshire in a day's cricket.
