Below you will find example sentences with "assassination attempt". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Assassination Attempt in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: attempt
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 30.3 words

Words in this phrase

assassination attempt

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • assassination can mean: The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain. Frequent word
  • attempt can mean: To try. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

an unsuccessful assassination attempt against putin 2× a foiled assassination attempt on a 1× after an assassination attempt 1× after the assassination attempt begin was 1× an assassination attempt made against 1× behind the assassination attempt on john 1× december 2 assassination attempt on ubaid 1× in an assassination attempt on reagan 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a pipe bomb 1× among the theories 1× an assassination attempt 1× being missed by 1× claims of external 1× dar es salaam 1×

Common sentence endings:

a khalistani extremist 1× a terrorist act 1× an assassination attempt 1× attempt against putin 1× attempt and beyond 1× attempt in 2001 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

president 4× accused 3× november 3× reagan 3× shot 3× year 2× mastermind 2× john 2× paul 2× 1981 2× years 2× yes 2×

Related phrases

first attempt desperate attempt

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around attempt:

first attempt 10×

Just before it in the phrase index:

assad regime aspect ratios aspect ratio asking questions ask questions asian restaurant

Just after it in the phrase index:

assembly constituency assembly elections assembly members assembly polls asset class asset classes

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

first attempt desperate attempt

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "assassination attempt" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 30.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as an unsuccessful assassination attempt against putin, a foiled assassination attempt on a, president, accused and november stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first attempt, desperate attempt and first attempt, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with assassination attempt

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Moscow branded it an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Putin and promised retaliation for what it termed a "terrorist'' act. (19 words)

He developed a reputation for being dogged in his pursuit of justice, even after surviving an assassination attempt in 2001. (20 words)

Modern strategies Assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan With the advent of gunpowder, ranged assassination (via bombs or firearms) became possible. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

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)

Many were dressed in red, with students/mom “demand action” shirts as well purple Brady Campaign shirts, referencing James Brady, the late press secretary for President Ronald Reagan who was shot and severely injured in an assassination attempt on Reagan. (40 words)

Navalny was arrested two years ago as he returned to Russia from Germany, where he had been treated for poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve toxin after what he and some Western nations said was a Russian state assassination attempt. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Modern strategies Assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan With the advent of gunpowder, ranged assassination (via bombs or firearms) became possible.

The British host concluded that “there is a shocking double standard, there is a shocking attempt to diminish and reduce the impact of what happened on Sunday” as well as the first assassination attempt.

Among the theories have been ones linking the disappearance to the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt against John Paul in 1981 in St. Peter's Square or to the international financial scandal over the Vatican bank.

An assassination attempt made against the President of the United States is seen from multiple viewpoints as the same time periods before, during, and after the attack are replayed and seen from the perspectives of different characters.

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A pipe bomb was thrown at his house, there was an assassination attempt as he dropped his kids off at school.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Tanzania opposition leader Tundu Lissu has returned to the country from self-imposed exile in Belgium, where he had lived since surviving an assassination attempt in 2017 when he was shot 16 times.

He developed a reputation for being dogged in his pursuit of justice, even after surviving an assassination attempt in 2001.

He even accused an intelligence officer as the "mastermind" of an assassination attempt on him in November during which he was shot in the leg.

India received consular access on at least three occasions to Nikhil Gupta, who is detained in a Czech prison following charges by the US relating to a foiled assassination attempt on a Khalistani extremist.

IS-Khorasan also claimed a December 2 assassination attempt on Ubaid ur Rehman Nizamani, head of Pakistan’s embassy in the Afghan capital.

It has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category, among the likes of — a story that explores Russian opposition Alexei Navalny's near-death experience with an assassination attempt and beyond.

Khan said he has served as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan and survived an assassination attempt on his life in Wazirabad in November last year.

Last week, Russia claimed it foiled an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin that it called an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Putin.

Many were dressed in red, with students/mom “demand action” shirts as well purple Brady Campaign shirts, referencing James Brady, the late press secretary for President Ronald Reagan who was shot and severely injured in an assassination attempt on Reagan.

Moscow branded it an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Putin and promised retaliation for what it termed a "terrorist'' act.

Navalny was arrested two years ago as he returned to Russia from Germany, where he had been treated for poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve toxin after what he and some Western nations said was a Russian state assassination attempt.

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