Example Sentences

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Hezbollah appears outmaneuvered by a technologically superior foe that has assassinated much of its top leadership and destroyed a significant portion of its weapons.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024

Fans continue to voice support for Cattrall's Samantha Jones on Twitter, where several claim the series has assassinated her character.

From Fox News • Dec. 15, 2021

One detective revealed the shocking and half-false information to the occupants of Surratt’s boardinghouse: “John Wilkes Booth has shot the president, and John Surratt has assassinated the secretary of state.”

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

He has assassinated the natural day; how then can he eat with an appetite?

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

"I do—I mean that the illiterate editor of this disgraceful sheet has assassinated the offspring of my imagination!"

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten