Example sentences for: murderers

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

  • During the Nuremberg trials, for instance, prosecutors misclassified the special police units largely responsible for the slaughter on the Eastern Front as run-of-the-mill policemen, rather than as the mass murderers they were.

  • Since 1977, juries have sentenced 5,500 murderers to death but, thanks to obstructionist lawyers, only 432 people have been executed.

  • Lessons for future murderers: 1) When you dump your gun, don't wrap it in the hat you wore during the murder.

  • Re Timothy Noah's "Chatterbox" item "William Jefferson Clinton": Joel Achenbach explained the three name serial killer phenomenon in a column included in his book Why Things Are . Newspapers use all three names for such people to minimize the number of people with similar names mistakenly thought by distant cousins, high-school sweethearts, and potential employers to be murderers (and to minimize possible lawsuits from the John Kennedy Gacys and Karla Onderdunk Tuckers of the world).

  • King's book is rich in horrors: The photographs in which faces have been blotted out with ink smears or hysterically attacked with a pen are more immediately alarming than the ones from which figures have been surgically removed, and there are sobering unretouched group shots of NKVD bureaucrats and the prosecution staff of the Supreme Soviet, mass murderers who invariably look like factory hands or math teachers.


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