Example sentences for: assassin

How can you use “assassin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There is history here, of all sorts: Kelly Harrell impersonating Charles Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin; the Carolina Tar Heels voicing the lament of shoemakers made redundant by the Industrial Revolution; Charlie Poole singing, "Roosevelt in the White House, he's doing his best; McKinley in the graveyard, he's taking his rest."

  • Previous recipients of the law school's Public Service Award are other UM law alumni: Forest attorney Constance Slaughter-Harvey; Luther Ott, formerly director of Stewpot Community Services in Jackson; and Bobby DeLaughter, the former district attorney who spearheaded the prosecution of Medgar Evers' assassin Byron De La Beckwith.

  • On 1 February 1908, the royal family was riding in an open carriage along the Lisbon river front plaza, Terreiro do Paço, when an assassin opened fire and killed King Carlos and the heir to the throne, Prince Luis Filipe.

  • He outwits the psychotic assassin.

  • Op-ed writers cautioned against "a self-defeating freeze on the peace process," called Arafat a "partner" in the "fight against terrorism," and observed that "Israeli terrorists"--namely, mass-murderer Baruch Goldstein and assassin Yigal Amir--had staged attacks "aimed at halting the peace process."


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