Wondering how to use Assassination in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as slaying or murder.
Assassination meaning
The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.
Synonyms of Assassination
Using Assassination
- The main meaning on this page is: The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.
- Useful related words include: character assassination, slaying, murder, hatchet job.
- In the example corpus, assassination often appears in combinations such as: the assassination, assassination attempt, assassination of.
Context around Assassination
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Assassination
- In this selection, "assassination" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, certain, consecutive, attempted, attempt, researchers and employing stand out and add context to how "assassination" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after an assassination attempt, after the assassination attempt begin and assassination attempt. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "assassination" sits close to words such as brick, dame and mason, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with assassination
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This was the fourth consecutive assassination or attempted assassination employing motorcyclists. (11 words)
Assassination 14th-century painting of the assassination of Nizam al-Mulk by an assassin. (14 words)
Modern strategies Assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan With the advent of gunpowder, ranged assassination (via bombs or firearms) became possible. (21 words)
On Sept. 15, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was accused of an assassination attempt on Trump at a golf course in Florida, but it was stopped by the Secret Service, making it the second assassination attempt on the former president in months. (43 words)
Hamas officially ended a ceasefire that was being held at the time, with Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh saying, "the assassination of Abu Shanab is also the assassination of the ceasefire," according to a Al Qassam Brigades press release. (38 words)
Certain assassination researchers claimed later that the camera she said she used was not released for sale until the year after the assassination, but Oliver said hers was an experimental model acquired before the commercial release. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Not many people ever make this connection, but I feel that RFK's assassination is the biggest clue to JFK's assassination.
It not only provided the means of assassination, it also provided the means of conducting such assassinations without anyone figuring out that it was the CIA that was behind the assassination.
On Sept. 15, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was accused of an assassination attempt on Trump at a golf course in Florida, but it was stopped by the Secret Service, making it the second assassination attempt on the former president in months.
Certain assassination researchers claimed later that the camera she said she used was not released for sale until the year after the assassination, but Oliver said hers was an experimental model acquired before the commercial release.
Hamas officially ended a ceasefire that was being held at the time, with Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh saying, "the assassination of Abu Shanab is also the assassination of the ceasefire," according to a Al Qassam Brigades press release.
In the last seventy odd years, we experienced the assassination of a Prime Minister, the assassination of an Executive President, a failed coup, two youth insurgencies and a long, bloody civil war.
This was the fourth consecutive assassination or attempted assassination employing motorcyclists.
Being missed by a grenade is only the latest of a series of assassination attempts and yes I think it was real and yes he is tough enough to appear 2 hours after an assassination attempt.
Consequently, a present-day condition of the crisis of Black males is that the literal assassination of the Black male body is now coupled with a thorough character assassination.
In 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, requiring the release of all records relevant to the assassination by the year 2017.
Sharif said that his new book, titled “Assamak Al Malih” (Salty Fish), contains many secrets regarding the assassination of the former president of Palestine and the assassination of Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin.
A number of additional examples from World War II show how assassination was used as a tool: *The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague on 27 May 1942 by the British and Czechoslovak government-in-exile.
Assassination 14th-century painting of the assassination of Nizam al-Mulk by an assassin.
Claims of external involvement in the assassination attempt In November 2010, he publicly accused Cardinal Agostino Casaroli as the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on John Paul II in 1981.
Eleven Lebanese nationals were executed in the evening of the assassination as part of a punitive campaign by the DRC's authorities who managed to keep power, despite Kabila's assassination.
Following the assassination, Lewis Pane came forth by stating that Booth had only told him prior to the meeting and the other men did not know about the plot until the night of the assassination.
Forty years after the assassination attempt, Begin was implicated as the organizer of the assassination attempt in a memoir written by one of the conspirators, Elieser Sudit.
Modern strategies Assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan With the advent of gunpowder, ranged assassination (via bombs or firearms) became possible.
Whilst many assassination were performed by an individual or a small group, there were also specialized units who used a collective group of people to perform more than one assassination.
According to director Rob Reiner, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has been a wound on the American psyche for 60 years.
Phrases with assassination
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with assassination
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the assassination 77×
- assassination attempt 68×
- assassination of 39×
- an assassination 35×
- assassination attempts 15×
- attempted assassination 7×
- assassination plot 5×
- assassination and 5×
- two assassination 5×
- of assassination 4×