Example Sentences

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Murdered teenager Brianna Ghey's head teacher said students "like the break" from mobile phones after she banned them from her school.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025

“Death of Slim Shady” is his first LP since 2020’s “Music to Be Murdered By,” which spent a week at number one at release.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

In 2022, Sears, the state’s Murdered and Missing Indigenous People investigator, began looking into the case and met with Eden’s foster family to learn more.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2023

Murdered British-Israeli man Yonatan Rapoport has been remembered as "a great father" who stood "bravely against" Hamas.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023

The Cloud of Witnesses," first published in 1714, the epitaph ran as follows: "Murdered for owning Christ supreme Head of his Church, and no more crime But her not owning Prelacy, And not abjuring Presbytery.

From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray