Murder means: The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination. Related words include slaying or kill. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Murder in practice.
Murder in a sentence
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Murder meaning
- The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
- The act of committing or abetting a crime that results in the killing of a person, regardless of intent, and even if the committer or abettor is not the one who killed the person: felony murder.
Synonyms of Murder
Example sentences (20)
Smith was convicted for the 1988 murder, with an accomplice, of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett in a murder-for-hire plot.
Like many other murder cases in Myanmar, the culprit behind the murder in Maung Day’s picture has not been found.
A Laval bus driver faces two charges of first-degree murder, as well as charges of attempted murder and assault.
Borge was charged with first- and second-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder and firearms-related charges.
Even Daniel's parents were stunned by the similarities between the murder of their son and the murder of Gerard.
Gebford was arrested and charged with suspicion of attempted premeditated first-degree murder and felony murder.
The teenager charged with murder has also been charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon.
No further action will be taken against a 17-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
An officer said the accused have been booked on charges of murder, attempt to murder, and criminal conspiracy.
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in relation to the stabbings.
Bobby Tarr, charged with the murder of Leslie Reeves and the attempted murder of Chris Smith, is nothing if not unflappable.
Murder most tasty: Aside from a few recipes gone awry, Burdette’s latest Key West murder mystery makes for delicious reading.
A former Limpopo Police Captain has been convicted and sentenced in the Giyani Regional Court for murder and attempted murder.
Bradshaw is also charged with two counts each of capital murder, conspiracy to murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy to kidnapping.
A 17-year-old suspect is being held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder leading on the attack.
These infractions included charges for weapons, drugs, robbery, assault, murder and attempted murder.
A jury convicted Miller on charges of accessory before the fact to murder and accessory after the fact to murder in December 2019.
Well I used to say well before I did my first murder case I didn’t do a murder case either I mean you have to take responsibility.
On 6 February 2023, on the first day of his murder trial, Fucci pled guilty to first-degree murder.
She was cleared of two counts of attempted murder and a jury was unable to reach verdicts on a further six attempted murder charges.
Phrases with murder
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with murder
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- murder and 105×
- attempted murder 93×
- of murder 50×
- the murder 39×
- murder of 39×
- first-degree murder 36×
- to murder 25×
- murder attempted 19×
- murder charges 13×
- second-degree murder 12×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word murder. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.