How to Use assassination in a Sentence

assassination

noun

• The first assassination outside of Gaza may be a sign of what’s to come.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2024
• The squib assassinations may be fake, but the pain is very real.
  — The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• But after the assassination of Kennedy, his dreams of going to space were derailed.
  — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2024
• Goold stages his downfall like a rock opera, with strobes, bursts of loud noise (these are often assassination attempts) and weird dancers.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• Members of the unit look, speak and dress as Arabs to infiltrate protests and conduct assassinations.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• One tragedy of the assassination is that in some measure Booth was successful.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• It was renamed in 1969, after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy the previous year.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• On the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, Williams looks back on that fateful day.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• In Nara, near the site of Abe’s assassination, dozens of people lined up from early Saturday to lay flowers.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Listen, man, the RFK assassination was childhood’s end for me.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
• Waves of crime and unrest have hit Haiti since the assassination of former President Jovenel Moise in 2021.
  — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• So Booth didn’t just commit the assassination of Lincoln.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• Armed gangs have taken power in as much as 90 percent of the Haitian capital since the assassination two years ago of President Jovenel Moïse.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• In May, gunmen opened fire on the motorcade of the mayor of Durán, a town outside Guayaquil, in an apparent assassination attempt.
  — Arturo Torres and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Haiti is the Western Hemisphere's poorest country and armed gangs have filled a power void that followed the assassination of its president in 2021.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• Feinstein became the first female mayor of the city following the assassination of two of her colleagues.
  — CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Gangs have long held sway in Haiti, but their power and influence has grown in the power vacuum left by the still-unsolved assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.
  — Widlore Mérancourt, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• The mission’s purpose is to support the Haitian police — outmatched by the gangs that have grown in power since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 — and to restore order so the country can hold elections.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The eventual assassination plot was different from the one the Americans had planned, but Washington’s desires were clear to people on the ground.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• These are the latest in a long history of Israeli assassinations and attempts against Hamas’s most senior figures.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Thatcher was not, of course, the first assassination target of Irish paramilitary groups.
  — Jessica Hornik, National Review, 13 July 2023
• Haiti was already the poorest country in the hemisphere before Moïse’s assassination .
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• Armed gangs, whose power has surged in the vacuum left by the still-unsolved assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, have overrun much of the Caribbean country, leaving it on the brink of collapse.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• Many of the inmates were gang members charged in connection with the 2021 assassination of Hatian President Jovenel Moise.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
• As a result of the book's publication, a fatwa was issued calling for the author’s assassination, which forced Rushdie to go into hiding.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
• The Kremlin has dismissed speculation that it was involved in the crash, amid suspicion among Russia’s elite that Prigozhin’s death was an assassination.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• The director of a local news site in Acapulco, Nelson Matus, was shot to death in his car in what was reportedly the third assassination attempt against him.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 21 July 2023
• However, after the assassination of Gemayel and the Sabra and Shatila massacres, the agreement was not implemented.
  — Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
• From an assassination attempt to a barefoot breakfast, here's a rundown of some notable visits.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
• Since then, Khan has survived an assassination attempt and weathered a tsunami of over 180 legal challenges.
  — TIME, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024