How to Use premeditate in a Sentence

premeditate

verb

• John Ryan says the death doesn't appear to be premeditated.
  — CBS News, 3 Sep. 2017
• The eight women and four men on the jury found that Johnson, 60, used a gun to kill Reuben Johnson, 56, and Aaliyah five years ago, but that the murders were not premeditated.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at the school, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
  — Author: Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
• He has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
• Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
  — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2018
• Cruz is now charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2018
• The alleged shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Fielder has been charged with two counts of premeditated murder.
  — Glenn E. Rice, Steve Vockrodt and Max Londberg, kansascity, 22 June 2018
• Nikolas Cruz, 19, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
  — Cnn Library, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
• Sheela argued unsuccessfully to the jury that Perez did not premeditate his wife’s slaying, but acted in the heat of passion.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Still, expert testimony was able to convince the jury that the killing was not premeditated.
  — Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
• The dazzling restaurant scene is so competitive, dining out on a Friday or Saturday can be as premeditated as a trip to the moon.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
• Gallagher was found not guilty of the most serious charges against him, which included premeditated murder and shooting at civilians while in Iraq in 2017.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2019
• Emerging details indicate the gunman could have been lying in wait, making the crime premeditated rather than one of passion, Obayashi said.
  — Colleen Shalby, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• He is being held without bond on 17 counts of premeditated murder.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• However, the murder is not at all premeditated and instead unfolds through a mix of drunken abandon and suppressed heartache.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2020
• The shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was arrested and charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
  — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, kansascity, 20 Feb. 2018
• Defense attorneys argued that when police knocked on the door, Brown had no time to premeditate a response, but was merely panicking.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022
• The State Attorney's Office for the 7th Circuit later upgraded the charge to first-degree murder, premeditated, due to the brutality of the crime.
  — C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2023
• Garcia was convicted of two counts of a lesser, non-premeditated form of homicide — second-degree murder — as well as two gun counts.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• The fact that the telephone wires were cut indicated that the murders were apparently premeditated, Helder said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
• Prosecutors allege that the killing was premeditated, pointing to the fact that Momeni had brought a cooking knife, which police later found at the crime scene, and drove Lee to a remote location.
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
• But defense attorney Tom Jacquinot said in his opening statement that the evidence will show Vrba did not premeditate to kill Steinfeld, who was his friend.
  — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2020
• The second-degree charges in the shootings of Dean and Henderson accuse Roberts of an intentional act of murder, not premeditated.
  — Joe Robertson, kansascity, 24 Oct. 2017
• The conflict in the trial centered on whether the crime was premeditated — a second-degree murder conviction would have carried a maximum sentence of life in prison.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• The failure of Blanc's efforts didn't prevent prosecutors from attaching two counts of abusing a dead human body to the two counts of premeditated murder.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
• On Friday, he was charged with three counts of premeditated attempted murder.
  — Joseph Serna, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
• The vast majority of our troops recognize that fighting a war is not a euphemism for mass slaughter or premeditated murder.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• If prosecutors in Florida find the murder of Hutchinson, 59, was premeditated, Riess could face the death penalty.
  — Daniel Arkin /, NBC News, 3 May 2018
• Then Sheriff Keller arrives at the hospital to ask Archie some questions — and Jughead, who sits in on the interview for reasons unclear, pipes up to theorize that the shooting could’ve been premeditated.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 12 Oct. 2017

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