"If you're killed defending me all of this will be worthless, won't it?"

My brother was killed defending my mother and her Temple.

Or of Gawyn, the only person who knows where the drop is, getting killed defending the manor.

Beck was sure the letter would say only that he'd been killed in action defending the Fatherland.

Conconnetodumnus, who had remained behind, was killed defending him.

Her husband was killed defending the village from contra forces.

They'd been murdered after he was seemingly killed defending them.

At fifteen his father was killed defending a cash box that held twelve dollars.

He was probably killed defending his city in the sack, though records are fragmentary.

It was estimated that 66 Japanese had been killed defending the ridge.