Example sentences for: murder

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

  • So my impulse is to think, as you do, that despite the murder of Matthew Shepherd, that gay-bashing is fading.

  • A non-invasive x-ray of the mummy suggests a murder plot: King Tut may have been done in by a blow to the back of the skull.

  • The whimper-not-a-bang end for now at the Kosovo talks leads at the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times . USA Today puts the talks on page 9 and instead leads with the guilty verdict in the race-tinged dragging murder case in Jasper, Texas.

  • The film, about a gay antique dealer's murder trial, is called "listless, disjointed and disconnected" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Problems: endless digressions and a "simply unfilmable" book (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Praise goes to actors John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Alison Eastwood--Clint's daughter, for whom critics predict stardom.

  • Together with Professor Zhiqiang Liu, Ehrlich has recently revisited the subject, refuting his most vocal critics and offering new evidence in support of his original conclusion: Increase the number of convictions by 1 percent and (to a very rough approximation) the murder rate falls by about 1 percent.


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