Example Sentences

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Sansa persuades Jon that if he returns to King’s Landing, Dany will murder him on sight, and she won’t allow another Stark to die out of naïveté.

From Slate • May 17, 2019

Warned a conferee: "Say one wrong word, and the press will murder us �by next week we'll be out of business."

From Time Magazine Archive

Our camp cabins have no AC, and you can’t leave the windows open at night because the mosquitoes will murder you!

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

You doubtless blush for me; you may do so, but don’t think that that conviction will murder my almost shameless candour, the only virtue which I possess, in a superfluous degree. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.

"Save me, save me," said the Duchess, calling Monte-Leone to her, and sheltering herself behind his body, "He will murder me."

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various