How to Use homicidal in a Sentence

homicidal

adjective
  • Is this the end of the Bad Choice Road for the show's charmingest homicidal maniac?
    EW.com, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The track, which goes into the mind of a homicidal youth named Robert, is the group’s most successful song to date.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Though he might be filled with homicidal rage right now, Five is the new Number One.
    Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The cause of death with regard to the three victims is homicidal violence.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • For the most part, these deportees did not choose to come to this city, which is perennially ranked among the world’s most homicidal.
    Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
  • What the audience knows, but Meredith does not, is that Bruce is a homicidal maniac who plans to make the long drive back on his own.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Police said the man was killed by homicidal violence but did not release his cause of death.
    Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • These fits of rage are eruptions of a common urge that is also shared by non-homicidal drivers.
    Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 15 Mar. 2023
  • He was pronounced dead at the scene of homicidal violence.
    Marc Ramirez, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Experts in policing now say the answer is evolving as lessons are learned from each homicidal spree.
    Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But in the process, El has been reduced to a dissonant mix of heroic self-sacrifice and homicidal rage.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022
  • That means that every Time Lord has a bit of the Doctor in them—including the Master, hence the homicidal rage that led him to destroy his home planet.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2020
  • After a wild amount of near-death experiences, the Pogues had to get their half-billion dollar treasure back from the Camerons and avoid the homicidal crew of a tanker ship.
    Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The cause of death of all four women was determined to be homicidal violence.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 July 2023
  • Tati Gabrielle, fearsome) is a homicidal villainess who could give James Bond a run for his money.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2022
  • He was pronounced dead from homicidal violence at the scene.
    Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Owens had made homicidal threats on his cell phone and failed to report his brother's involvement in a burglary.
    Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • In the Amazon Prime film, the British actress plays a woman with a short fuse who has to shock herself to deter her homicidal impulses.
    Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2021
  • The unidentified teen faces one count each of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death.
    Fox News, 4 Dec. 2020
  • That autopsy report found that Ratliff died from blunt force trauma to the head, likely as a result of a homicidal attack.
    Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 4 June 2022
  • The patient, a serial killer played by Domhnall Gleeson, demands to be cured of his homicidal urges.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
  • Theo ends up bonding with Love and developing feelings for her, which brings up some problems for the homicidal new mom.
    Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The other side sees men with badges and warrants as reckless, invasive, even homicidal.
    Paul Letersky, Time, 22 July 2021
  • Zola is based on a viral Twitter thread about an exotic dancer’s long weekend with a new friend and her homicidal pimp.
    Katherine Schaffstall, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Holmes was brutishly walloping a raw ham rump with a cricket bat, to test a theory about the bruising of flesh in homicidal attacks.
    Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Cause of death has not been determined at this writing; experts found no signs of homicidal violence or foul play with the remains.
    oregonlive, 13 May 2021
  • Broderick's simmering homicidal rage may or may not have not been in part due to her husband and/or the divorce, but at the end of the day, Peet says, you're not supposed to take sides either way.
    Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 1 June 2020
  • And somewhere outside, lurking in the fog, is a homicidal maniac.
    Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The trouble lies not only with the youth and its folly but within the town as a whole and the mysterious and homicidal stranger (Richard Holmes) who takes on the role of unsolicited savior.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 23 Jan. 2022
  • There will be live dubia roaches, which grow to nearly 2 inches; Satan on stilts; a homicidal jester with sparking gloves.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022

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