Example sentences for: homicide

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

  • The NYT , in its inside piece on the crime drop, plays the crack downturn explanation much higher, and notes that the two crimes that have fallen the most sharply since 1991--homicide and robbery--are the two most closely associated with crack.

  • It's said that one director was driven nearly to homicide after being forced to spend six hours lighting each shot (and, allegedly, to employ a technician whose sole job it was to hold a cardboard triangle next to a light so that the star's jowls would be covered by a shadow).

  • Citing St. Augustine, some penitential manuals classify it as a type of homicide, while others make it a sin against the Holy Spirit and thus unforgivable.

  • Courtney B. Vance shows up as an officious homicide detective from a nearby city who finds Holly Springs' lazy informality irritating, but none of the women wants to answer his queries: They want to flirt with him, and he can't help falling into their easy rhythms.

  • The warless !Kung San hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert, once romanticized as The Harmless People , were found a few decades ago to have homicide rates between 20 and 80 times as high as industrialized nations.


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