Example sentences for: murder

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

  • The Wall Street Journal "Legal Beat" column reports that for the first time ever the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the U.N.'s main legal arm, has intervened in a U.S. criminal case and ordered the U.S. to stay the execution of a Paraguayan citizen convicted of murder in Virginia.

  • Specifically, they concocted the idea of a mass murder of their German oppressors.

  • Benetton might just as well have added, "And we had no interest in discussing these crimes with the families of the murder victims."

  • In Britain, the Kosovo conflict has been squeezed off the front pages of many papers this week by extensive coverage of the murder Monday of Jill Dando, a popular TV presenter, who was shot in the head with a pistol on her front doorstep in west London.

  • As evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson showed in their book Homicide , children not reared by both biological parents are at greatly elevated risk of physical abuse, even murder.


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