Example Sentences

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Still, we should recognize that it is never easy for a political leader to spare the life of someone who has murdered an innocent victim.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2024

And you can’t say a tenor who so tenderly shaped the dulcet phrases Mario sings to Tosca after he learns she has murdered Scarpia, the malignant police chief, lacks lyrical grace.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2018

Technology has murdered our ability to socialize normally.

From Time • Jul. 8, 2015

Salah becomes convinced that Luminsky, the beautiful stranger, has murdered his father and tells an Arabic version of Hamlet.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2010

"Michelle," said he to his wife, sister of the dauphin, Charles, "your brother has murdered my father."

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert