MURDER in a Sentence

Learn MURDER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
327 example sentences for MURDER, such as:
1. He is on trial for murder.
2. 'There is no murder, I answered.
3. The murder was the act of a psychopath.
4. He was the victim of a very brutal murder.
5. The file on the murder was closed five years ago.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MURDER
murder
 n.  unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
 v.  alter so as to make unrecognizable
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then, of course, this blood belongs to a second individual, presumably the murderer, if murder has been committed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  There has been murder done, and the murderer was a man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  "Don't get arresting me for the murder," he said.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4  There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
5  All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad silent stretch of grain-land, that it was difficult to realize that the spirit of murder lurked through it all.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
6  It chanced, however, that Drebber, looking from his window, had recognized the vagrant in the street, and had read murder in his eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
7  We were ushered into a small chamber where a police Inspector noted down our prisoner's name and the names of the men with whose murder he had been charged.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
8  'There is no murder, I answered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9  The tall one, then, had done the murder, if murder there was.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
10  Robbery had not been the object of the murder, for nothing was taken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
11  This murder had, on the contrary, been done most deliberately, and the perpetrator had left his tracks all over the room, showing that he had been there all the time.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
12  The murder of Stangerson was an incident which was entirely unexpected, but which could hardly in any case have been prevented.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
13  The public," it said, "have lost a sensational treat through the sudden death of the man Hope, who was suspected of the murder of Mr. Enoch Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stangerson.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
14  They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
15  In the middle of the summer the animals were alarmed to hear that three hens had come forward and confessed that, inspired by Snowball, they had entered into a plot to murder Napoleon.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  He will do anything short of murder to achieve his ends.
2  The murder was the act of a psychopath.
3  She appealed unsuccessfully against her conviction for murder.
4  The file on the murder was closed five years ago.
5  The analysis of the samples on the murder spot showed some valuable clues to the police.
6  He'd do anything to cover his ass, including lie, cheat and murder.
7  He is on trial for murder.
8  He was the victim of a very brutal murder.
9  The police said that there was no sign of a struggle by the murder victim.
10  Relatives of the victim watched from the public gallery as the murder charge was read out in court.
11  Police retraced the movements of the murder victim.
12  The police still haven't found the murder weapon.
13  The police are still looking for the murder weapon.
14  After a long search for the murder weapon, the police found a knife.
15  Police frogmen searched the lake for the murder weapon.