Example Sentences

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Even so many years later, the indictment is a welcome attempt to provide justice for the murdered Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The state sufficiently proved that David Leath was murdered, he wrote, but “No evidence other than innuendo and conjecture identify Ms. Leath as having killed her husband.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

He said it was "possibly as little as a week" later than Ms Sindall was murdered.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Leo plans to pray privately in the chapel dedicated to 19 priests and nuns murdered during Algeria's 1992-2002 civil war.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

That sent him flying back into the yard and around the corner of the cabin, yelling like I’d murdered him.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson