How to Use murder in a Sentence

murder

1 of 2 noun

• Traffic is murder this time of day.
• She was accused of murder.
• Now is the time to stop the barrels of the gun, to stop the murder of our civilians.
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
• In Italy, a recipe like this is a crime worst than a murder.
  — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 13 June 2018
• Kevin Smith, who served 27 years for murder, did the same.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• To this day, no one has been charged for the murder of Kevin Harris.
  — Michelle Miller, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2020
• Despite the murder charge, Kelsey's body had not been found.
  — CBS News, 23 Nov. 2019
• But Till’s murder wasn’t the last time a young Black man was harmed by bigots.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 23 Feb. 2021
• Smith is charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Emory doesn't yet have a lawyer to represent him on the murder charge in Davis' death.
  — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• But these countries have all cut their murder tolls in half over the past five years.
  — Sean Kennedy, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• But the murder weapons have not been found, according to Croft.
  — Michael M. Dewitt, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2023
• Terms range from a few weeks for simple theft to eight years for murder.
  — Lynn Marie Stephen, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2020
• Chauvin was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison.
  — Anna Kaplan, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• He was booked in the Travis County Jail and will face a murder charge, police said.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 30 Sep. 2023
• It was said to be the largest murder of jewish people since the holocaust of WWII.
  — Simon Constable, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• It’s not the first time Samartaney has been accused of murder.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• Brehmer and McIntosh have since been charged with murder.
  — CBS News, 20 June 2019
• All the while there's a slow-burn murder mystery that comes to a head during the show's latter half.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2021
• Ramos was charged with five counts of first-degree murder.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 9 July 2018
• Police said at the time that the five murders were connected.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• The foreman read the verdict—guilty of first degree murder.
  — Longreads, 26 June 2018
• You will be hooked as this novel gets to truth of this gruesome murder.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• Court records show he has been charged with first-degree murder.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• He is charged with four counts of murder and one count of felony burglary and has pleaded not guilty.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
• Its murder rate reached an all-time high last year; 342 people were killed.
  — Brad Heath, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
• Police say some of the weapons were used to commit murders and armed robberies.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2019
• George Floyd’s murder is as close to a straight-up lynching as anybody has seen.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Three Klu Klux Klan members were belatedly convicted of their murders.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
• But Simpson and the murder trial specifically only came up on occasion.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2024

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murder

2 of 2 verb

• The band murdered that song.
• His wife was found murdered.
• He was arrested and accused of murdering his wife.
• She was found raped and murdered on the outskirts of town.
  — Andrew Boryga, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• There will always be a few who murder, and many who want to hear about it.
  — Ashley Leath, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2021
• Did she, or a lover, murder her husband to set her free?
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
• Salazar said that the charges could be upgraded to murder.
  — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2022
• They wouldn’t get murdered in their sleep and they wouldn’t get firebombed in their dorm rooms.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2023
• Your tendency, then, is to want to murder them in their sleep.
  — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• The girl was murdered or so goes the story that was meant to be erased from her memory.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• She was murdered by an ex-boyfriend who had been stalking her.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2020
• This poor family paid $125 for their pet to be murdered in front of them.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 14 Mar. 2018
• Rumors that the Nation planned to murder him began to swirl.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• While he was locked up, almost all of his family died, most of the men to murder.
  — Author: Karen Heller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2021
• Did the cops ever catch the person who murdered your mother?
  — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• The young girl was then kidnapped, tied up inside the home, and told her mother had been murdered.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
• One of Abdul’s friends had been murdered with a railroad spike.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• He was trained from birth to murder his dad and went to police academy to achieve it.
  — Vulture, 23 Dec. 2022
• They were murdered and dumped on Cleveland’s East Side.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland.com, 7 June 2019
• This week's episode reveals that, no, young Rock did not try to murder anyone.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• What if a mafia man bought it for his mistress, who later murdered him in a swirl of cocaine and rage?
  — Faran Krentcil, Marie Claire, 14 Apr. 2020
• Jamison was murdered just before the segment was set to air.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Sep. 2023
• His mother asked my office to help find out who murdered her son.
  — Tanya A. Christian, Essence, 7 Oct. 2019
• Switch to a cable drama: one of them has murdered the other.
  — Ali Wentworth, Town & Country, 6 Apr. 2018
• This happens around the same time a popular priest is found murdered.
  — Chris Vognar, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• After one of the guests is murdered, the former detective must once again find out who did it.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• The robot wives then murder the real wives and replace them.
  — Margaret Atwood, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2023
• The Colorado home where Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters has listed for sale.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
• For how else could a husband impulsively murder a wife in their bed?
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024