murder in a sentence

murder meaning:

n.) The offense of killing a human being willfully, deliberately; intentional and unlawful homicide.

v.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill a human being willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully.

v.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty;

murder sentence:

He was tried for murder.

The play is a murder mystery.

He admitted murdering fifteen men.

He was found guilty of murder.

Jealousy was the motive for the murder.

He committed five murders.

It is doubtless that he was murdered.

He pleaded not guilty to murdering his former wife.

This was murder based on racial profiling.

He was arrested on suspicion of murder.

He was imprisoned in 1965 for attempted murder.

He established an alibi to the charge of murder.

The papers gave the lurid details of the murder.

The file on the murder was closed five years ago.

He confessed that he had murdered her.

The autopsy established that he had been murdered.

Evans had been murdered in cold blood .

She was murdered in a frenzied knife attack.

The police are working on the supposition that he was murdered.

Thousands of civilians were brutally murdered during the civil war.

The murdered man is thought to have been involved in drug smuggling.

Police think the murders are linked.

He felt no remorse for the murders he had committed.

The local community was shocked by the murders.

There has been a series of gruesome murders in the capital.

Police believe that the same man is responsible for three other murders in the area.

The other victim was the main suspect in the ritualistic murders.

He has admitted committing several crimes, including two murders.

He’d read books about murders and we talked about them for years.

She went on trial charged with murdering her husband.

He has consistently denied murdering his estranged wife.

She was her husband’s accomplice in murdering a rich old man.

He was charged with murder, but got off on a plea of insanity.

The original conviction for attempted murder was upheld in an unsuccessful appeal.

The prosecution has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he is guilty of murder.

From these interviews, some viewers will infer clearheaded premeditation of murder.

The police spent three months barking up the wrong tree on the murder investigation.

He has admitted misleading the police about his movements on the night of the murder.

Many of the spies had been involved in murder, blackmail, or other nefarious activities.

Police officers are trying to construct the timescale of events leading up to the murder.

He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.

Police are trying to reconstruct the sequence of events on the night of the murder.

The murder weapon was a frozen spike and it melted in the steam room.

The woman charged with murder was said to be mad and unfit to plead.

The charges on the indictment include murder and attempted murder.

The rebels were responsible for the mass murder of 400 civilians.

She appealed unsuccessfully against her conviction for murder.

He testified he was at the theatre at the time of the murder.

She admitted conspiring with her lover to murder her husband.

The whole family is currently under suspicion of her murder.

The police have excluded robbery as a motive for the murder.

Some important evidence has come to light about the murder.

The detective tried to pin the murder on the accused man.

The crime investigators are looking into the murder case.

It’s an exciting story of political intrigue and murder.

It is hardly in the same league as murder or kidnapping.

Attempted murder is a capital offense under Zambian law.

The High Court later quashed his conviction for murder.

He swore vengeance on everyone involved in the murder.

In some countries, murder carries the death penalty.

The court acquitted him of the charge of murder.



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