How to Use homicide in a Sentence

homicide

noun

• The number of homicides increased last year.
• He has been arrested for homicide.
• There have been 595 homicides in the state through March of this year.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
• The death marked Berkeley’s third homicide of the year.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
• The death was the first homicide in St. Paul in 2023, Ernster said.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2023
• Monday’s killing was the city’s sixth homicide of the year and the 14th assault with a firearm.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2023
• Burnett’s death marks the 27th homicide in Pine Bluff this year and first in 38 days.
  — I.c. Murrell, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• Most of the homicide victims died in shootings both years.
  — oregonlive, 31 May 2023
• The pace of homicides in Portland in 2023 now matches that of last year at this same point.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive Public Safety Team, oregonlive, 5 July 2023
• The list will be updated throughout the year, with the most recent homicides at the top.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2024
• His lawyers have said their client wasn't in the home where the homicides occurred and was driving around alone that night.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• The baby girl’s death was ruled a homicide, police said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• Cops on Monday night said he’d been deemed the victim of a homicide — but the youth’s mother said that was wrong.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
• The Penn-North site went a without a single homicide for the calendar year.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
• See the table below to learn who was killed so far in 2024, where the homicide happened and whether arrests were made.
  — Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• In each of the two years after New Mexico’s red flag law took effect in 2020, the city logged a new homicide record.
  — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 10 July 2023
• The homicide is the city’s sixth of the year, according to authorities.
  — Joel Umanzor, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
• The roster only showed the first-degree homicide charge.
  — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2023
• The 2022 deaths of the two men were ruled homicides after they were given drugs tainted with fentanyl.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The manner of his death was later determined to be a homicide.
  — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 9 July 2024
• The slaying comes as the city continues to grapple with crime, with 19 homicides so far in August, 16 of which occurred in the first six days of the month.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Police were not able to determine which of the two teens fired the fatal shot, but brought first-degree homicide charges against both of them.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
• Cleveland could surpass 192 total homicides, the most in years.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
• Memphis in November broke its record for homicides in a year.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• Of those deaths, nearly three-quarters were by suicide and just over a quarter were homicides.
  — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
• There had been a surge of pessimism about Allen since the winter because homicides and carjackings spiked in his ward.
  — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Aug. 2024
• Salazar said the first inclination is to assume a homicide.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 July 2023
• The city sees only a few dozen homicides each year, compared to several hundred in New York.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 3 June 2023
• The medical examiner ruled it a homicide, but no charges were ever brought.
  — Sarah Metz, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
• Snelling has responded by saying, in effect, that COPA did not take into account that officers were operating with a heightened sense of awareness due to the earlier homicide.
  — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024