How to Use fratricide in a Sentence

fratricide

noun
  • But Iran did little to stop the fratricide.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Noel’s departure from the band seemed to be musical fratricide.
    — D.i., The Economist, 26 June 2019
  • The horror of fratricide is merely the price of admission to the family drama Penn here relates.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The Square and indulges in casual fratricide and a spot of naked, fiery volcano-side wrestling in the recent Viking epic The Northman.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Bird explained to Vancouver news outlet CTV that a fratricide is possible should the eaglets get hungry.
    — National Geographic, 13 June 2017
  • Be Prepared,’’ steeped in shadows and complete with goose-stepping hyenas pledging their fealty to the dastardly Scar, intent on both regicide and fratricide.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The hour-long score proved rich material for this unusual semistaged performance, lending physical form to this gnarly tale of fratricide and supernatural revenge.
    — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2017
  • This can particularly be a problem when aircraft are supporting ground troops in combat, a sometimes confusing situation where mistakes can lead to fratricide.
    — Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The starfighters use their maneuverability to fly between the capital ships of the Final Order and keep their guns silent for fear of committing fratricide.
    — Angry Staff Officer, Wired, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Viewers already watched Taffy pull off the near-perfect fratricide and, as Poker Face‘s structure tends to do, the episode travels back in time to see how Charlie spots the lies and solves the crime.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Orlando likewise finds his way there, in flight from his own fratricide-minded brother, Oliver (Aubrey Deeker Hernandez).
    — James Hebert, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
  • The maps are triggering political fratricide – pitting sitting New York House Democrats against one another.
    — Fox News, 23 May 2022
  • Republican insiders acknowledge the trend is ominous and worry GOP fratricide could exacerbate it.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Fleeing for his life, the boy vows revenge as well as to liberate his mother (Nicole Kidman), with dad having helpfully given him a pep talk about the importance of vengeance even before this act of fratricide cemented Amleth's destiny.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Yet Western culture has been haunted for millennia by the wretched House of Atreus – cursed through the generations with fratricide, patricide, filicide, mariticide, and matricide.
    — Steven G. Kellman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2017

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