Example sentences for: murder

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

  • A suspect has been charged with the murder of Ennis Cosby . A $100,000 reward offered by the National Enquirer led to a tip, which led police to the gun and the killer's cap, which led to the arrest of Mikail Markhasev, an 18-year-old Russian émigré with a criminal background.

  • with her country's drastically changed landscape" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Tired harangues about capital punishment and gun control are said to come at the expense of developing her characters, who "don't behave like humans" (Carolyn See, the Washington Post ). Others pay the customary obeisance to Gordimer's nuanced depiction of morally confused white liberals, in this case an older couple whose son is accused of murder.

  • Luis Felipe, the Latin Kings leader convicted of murder and racketeering, is about to join Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski for conversation in the exercise yard at the federal "Super Max" prison in Florence, Colo.

  • The General begins with his murder and the cheers that go up when word reaches the police station, then flashes back: As a boy, he steals pastries, which he gallantly shares with his future wife, Frances (Maria Doyle Kennedy).

  • CBS allegedly gave up programming new episodes of Murder, She Wrote because of the "demographics."


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