Example sentences for: suicide

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

  • That may seem an obvious point, but it is one that we often ignore when assisted suicide is the topic.

  • Any serious policy examination of a suicide hijacking scenario, critiquing each of the layers of the security system, could have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities-expanding no-fly lists, searching passengers identified by the CAPPS screening system, deploying Federal Air Marshals domestically, hardening cockpit doors, alerting air crew to a different kind of hijacking than what they had been trained to expect, or adjusting the training of controllers and managers in the FAA and NORAD.

  • The entries include the facetious ( throat trouble Death by hanging; get or have a permanent To be executed by electrocution), the legal and legalistic ( executory devise A situation in which no estate vests under the will until the occurrence of a future event), the jargon-based ( psycho-weaponry Fear of death implanted in the minds of victims by terrorists; performance suicide Suicide in response to a sense of failure in meeting society's standards), the poetic ( pull a Frankie and Johnny To kill one's husband in revenge), the religious and mythological ( Petbe Egyptian myth .

  • The presentation mentioned the possibility of suicide hijackings but said that "fortunately, we have no indication that any group is currently thinking in that direction."

  • Beginning at age 15, she had an affair for almost two years with a 35-year-old married man; has attempted suicide some three times; was hospitalized for psychiatric problems for three months; was arrested for assault and is currently on probation; and the list goes on.


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