murder

How To Use murder In A Sentence

• Still, the doctor is not convinced, but he does offer his story of a murderous ventriloquist whose dummy seemed more alive, and violent, than he was.
• It is murder trying to find a parking place for the car.
• He admitted killing her but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control. Times, Sunday Times
• And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
• You would commit the most foul of murders out of loyalty to me.
• Burke's execution was witnessed by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who sympathized with the general opinion that both men's wives had served as accomplices, and that the anatomists had been accessories to the murders.
• So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
• Police may now reinvestigate her unsolved murder.
• Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
• The rebels were responsible for the mass murder of 400 civilians.