How to Use murderer in a Sentence

murderer

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  • The kind of faith that makes a man a murderer for doubting it.
    — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The movie stars Sarah Drew, a rookie cop who takes a big risk to try and catch a murderer.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
  • This murderer was from the housing projects, and Matías was, too.
    — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And in nearly 8 out of 10 cases, the murderers go free.
    — Bill Kovarik, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The viewer knows who is dead, who the murderer is, and often, why the crime occurred.
    — Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
  • They could be killed if the murderer thought the kids could identify him or her.
    — Anna-Catherine Brigida, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The guest stars could come in for one episode and play either murderer or victim.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Did his missing eye get put inside the body of a murderer?
    — Joshua Dudley, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Finding the murderer is based on only one thing: The power of truth.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • This match had no chance to follow a murderers row of great matches on this show.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • With a murderer afoot, the group decides to pair off and search the rest of the house for any potential intruders.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The return of a Kander and Ebb classic about celebrity murderers in the Jazz Age.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, the Heart can even predict if someone will be a murderer or a victim.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The face of the murderer, the company predicted, was male.
    — Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The murderer must be a member of his new friend group, someone on the inside, Joe deduces.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Strauss said that lawyers are the easiest to cast, then victims, then murderers, then rapists.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Since there wasn't direct evidence that could be proven that Jim was indeed the murderer, the case went cold.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The killing has divided the city, with many blasting him as a murderer while others have lauded him as a hero.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 14 June 2023
  • And then there’s the ‘major role performer,’ who would be the murderer in a procedural.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 July 2023
  • The same could be said last season, but there isn't a murderer's row of weapons waiting downfield for Jones' longball.
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Thirty-five years earlier, the same murderer went on a killing spree in her town, leaving her mom the sole survivor of a group of teen friends.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Since the announcement of Ashihara’s death, one X post calling Aizawa a murderer has over 8,000 likes.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • By the end of the pandemic, Charlie Brooker had almost run out of murderers.
    — WIRED, 14 June 2023
  • The contest culminates on Halloween night, when staffers reveal which doll was crowned the creepiest—and, this year, which one was the murderer.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The image crossed my mind of a murderer dragging the body through the grass, collecting ticks and mud, with only owls and mice as witnesses.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The Hope family massacre rocked a coastal Maine town in 1929, and many believed teenager Lenora Hope to be the murderer.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The parents of a Texas teenage girl who was recently killed in a road-rage shooting in Houston have a message for her murderer.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • After serving six years of a life sentence in Hungary, the murderer was sent home to Azerbaijan, which had promised to keep him in jail.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But these findings didn’t fit the narrative that a murderer was roaming free.
    — Caitlin Flynn, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The police instead questioned the murderer and released him back onto the streets with little ado.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 9 May 2023

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