How to Use murder in a Sentence
- Traffic is murder this time of day.
- She was accused of murder.
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Now is the time to stop the barrels of the gun, to stop the murder of our civilians.
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CBS News,
5 Nov. 2023
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In Italy, a recipe like this is a crime worst than a murder.
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Gabriella Paiella,
The Cut,
13 June 2018
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Smith is charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon.
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Rebecca Rosenberg,
Fox News,
4 Nov. 2022
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Terms range from a few weeks for simple theft to eight years for murder.
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Lynn Marie Stephen,
The Conversation,
24 Aug. 2020
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But these countries have all cut their murder tolls in half over the past five years.
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Sean Kennedy,
WSJ,
7 Feb. 2020
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Police said at the time that the five murders were connected.
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Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Jan. 2024
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You will be hooked as this novel gets to truth of this gruesome murder.
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Dina Kaur,
The Arizona Republic,
29 June 2023
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Ramos was charged with five counts of first-degree murder.
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Crimesider Staff,
CBS News,
9 July 2018
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The foreman read the verdict—guilty of first degree murder.
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Longreads,
26 June 2018
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Despite the murder charge, Kelsey's body had not been found.
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CBS News,
23 Nov. 2019
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Police say some of the weapons were used to commit murders and armed robberies.
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Chris Morris,
Fortune,
22 Aug. 2019
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Court records show he has been charged with first-degree murder.
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Lyric Li,
Washington Post,
8 Sep. 2022
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He is charged with four counts of murder and one count of felony burglary and has pleaded not guilty.
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Corin Cesaric,
Peoplemag,
5 June 2023
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That officer has since been fired and charged with murder.
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Dan Horn,
Cincinnati.com,
30 May 2020
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But the murder weapons have not been found, according to Croft.
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Michael M. Dewitt,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2023
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To this day, no one has been charged for the murder of Kevin Harris.
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Michelle Miller,
CBS News,
30 Sep. 2020
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Two of them are charged with murder and three are charged with first-degree robbery.
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David Aaro,
Fox News,
25 May 2021
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All the while there's a slow-burn murder mystery that comes to a head during the show's latter half.
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Christopher Rosa,
Glamour,
6 Jan. 2021
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Emory doesn't yet have a lawyer to represent him on the murder charge in Davis' death.
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Ashley Remkus,
AL.com,
2 Nov. 2017
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It’s not the first time Samartaney has been accused of murder.
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Tim Prudente,
baltimoresun.com,
1 Oct. 2021
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Vergara and Benitez were both charged with four counts of murder.
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John Quinones,
ABC News,
10 Nov. 2022
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For more than three decades the gruesome murder remained unsolved.
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Globe Staff,
BostonGlobe.com,
13 May 2022
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He was charged with murder and ordered held without bail.
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Jack Healy,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 July 2022
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Floyd's family and others have called for them to be charged with murder.
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Mike Brest,
Washington Examiner,
29 May 2020
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Brehmer and McIntosh have since been charged with murder.
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CBS News,
20 June 2019
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He was being held in jail without bail on those counts before he was charged with murder.
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CBS News,
25 Jan. 2023
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But Till’s murder wasn’t the last time a young Black man was harmed by bigots.
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Brooklyn White,
Essence,
23 Feb. 2021
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Michael, charged as an accomplice, faces a murder charge.
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cincinnati.com,
9 Dec. 2021
- The band murdered that song.
- His wife was found murdered.
- He was arrested and accused of murdering his wife.
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She was found raped and murdered on the outskirts of town.
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Andrew Boryga,
sun-sentinel.com,
5 Aug. 2019
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Salazar said that the charges could be upgraded to murder.
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Steve Helling,
Peoplemag,
25 Aug. 2022
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There will always be a few who murder, and many who want to hear about it.
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Ashley Leath,
Country Living,
25 Oct. 2021
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Did she, or a lover, murder her husband to set her free?
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Moira Hodgson,
WSJ,
28 Sep. 2022
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The girl was murdered or so goes the story that was meant to be erased from her memory.
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Lorraine Ali,
latimes.com,
20 Apr. 2018
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Did the cops ever catch the person who murdered your mother?
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New York Times,
1 Nov. 2017
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She was murdered by an ex-boyfriend who had been stalking her.
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Laura Schulte,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2020
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The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered.
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Sarah Yang,
Sunset Magazine,
15 Dec. 2023
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Your tendency, then, is to want to murder them in their sleep.
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Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
4 Oct. 2022
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He was trained from birth to murder his dad and went to police academy to achieve it.
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Vulture,
23 Dec. 2022
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Jamison was murdered just before the segment was set to air.
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Melissa Noel,
Essence,
28 Sep. 2023
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They wouldn’t get murdered in their sleep and they wouldn’t get firebombed in their dorm rooms.
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Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2023
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His mother asked my office to help find out who murdered her son.
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Tanya A. Christian,
Essence,
7 Oct. 2019
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The robot wives then murder the real wives and replace them.
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Margaret Atwood,
The Atlantic,
26 Aug. 2023
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This happens around the same time a popular priest is found murdered.
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Chris Vognar,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2024
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Rumors that the Nation planned to murder him began to swirl.
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Marisa Iati,
Washington Post,
31 Oct. 2022
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While he was locked up, almost all of his family died, most of the men to murder.
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Author: Karen Heller,
Anchorage Daily News,
19 Feb. 2021
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Switch to a cable drama: one of them has murdered the other.
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Ali Wentworth,
Town & Country,
6 Apr. 2018
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The young girl was then kidnapped, tied up inside the home, and told her mother had been murdered.
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Christine Pelisek,
Peoplemag,
8 Dec. 2023
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What if a mafia man bought it for his mistress, who later murdered him in a swirl of cocaine and rage?
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Faran Krentcil,
Marie Claire,
14 Apr. 2020
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Her parents were waiting for her in a campus parking lot the night she was murdered.
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Michael Smolens,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
10 Sep. 2017
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And other people will take a fan and turn them into someone who wants to murder you!
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Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2021
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After one of the guests is murdered, the former detective must once again find out who did it.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2023
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One of Abdul’s friends had been murdered with a railroad spike.
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Eli Saslow Erin Schaff,
New York Times,
13 May 2023
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Just a few weeks previously, a woman who had gone just over a mile from the camp was raped and murdered.
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Sebastian Shukla, Tim Lister and Clarissa Ward,
CNN,
27 June 2019
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They were initially charged with gang-rape and attempt to murder.
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Vedika Sud,
CNN,
1 Oct. 2020
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Your elderly neighbor was murdered right in front of you in broad daylight.
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Rachel Aviv,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2018
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