How to Use assassinate in a Sentence

assassinate

verb
  • They discovered a secret plot to assassinate the governor.
  • President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
  • Then a drone would be sent to assassinate a person.
    — Justin Salhani, The Dial, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Lessard was more convinced than ever that goons were out to assassinate her.
    — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • And some bettors took that to mean dead, like would be assassinated.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Regime forces tried multiple times to assassinate the two men.
    — Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
  • How did the decision to assassinate Soleimani get made in the first place?
    — Noah Millman, TheWeek, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Be in no doubt – this tragedy would not have happened had Soleimani not been assassinated.
    — refinery29.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • But there are one or two imposters in your midst who are trying to go around and assassinate everybody on the ship.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The tour was not yet over when Rauschenberg learned that Kennedy had been assassinated.
    — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Then, he was assassinated for those beliefs.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The next day, at almost the exact same spot, King was assassinated by a gunman.
    — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Yes, assassinating their leaders might have played into that.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 May 2026
  • He was assassinated that night.
    — Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Most of the senators who’d conspired to assassinate Caesar had fled the city.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
  • But Aung San was assassinated shortly after and the deal fell apart.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
  • Allen, 31, has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president and two gun charges.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • And for this he was assassinated, at the age of thirty-eight, in Africa in 1896.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • That month was when Gabby Giffords was shot, and one of her staff members was assassinated.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The suspect has since been charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Apr. 2026
  • They are assassinated by central banks.
    — Moneyshow, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • She could be assassinated or kidnapped.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Kirk was assassinated at a Utah college event earlier this month.
    — Josh Bergeron, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2025
  • He was assassinated and that started World War I, so maybe that’s a bad title.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Two of them were assassinated while serving their nation and received that honor as respect for their efforts.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Milk was assassinated in 1978 by a former colleague on the board.
    — Jonathan Horwitz, Oc Register, 23 May 2025
  • Trump was close to Abe, who was assassinated after leaving office.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In Utah, where Kirk was assassinated, the governor has promised to seek the death penalty.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • He was assassinated while speaking to the media outside of a police station.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Who in God's name would put a woman whose husband was brutally assassinated in front of the entire world through this?
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026

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