Example Sentences

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“She is murdering ‘60 Minutes,’” Pelley said of Weiss at the staff meeting with Bilton.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“She is murdering ‘60 Minutes,’” Pelley said of Weiss at the meeting held at the program’s Manhattan headquarters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

It’s beautiful, it’s powerful, but it’s too hot, and the high-resolution screen is murdering the battery life.

From The Verge • Jul. 30, 2022

The nearly three-hour movie is very much a film noir, with the two characters playing detective to find a missing girl and locate The Riddler, who is murdering high-profile figures in Gotham City.

From Reuters • Mar. 1, 2022

To be with them, watching the growth of their terrible love, that is murdering me, and yet to stay on, fearing a worse agony.

From The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher by Alma-Tadema, Laurence