How to Use mass murderer in a Sentence

mass murderer

noun
  • Speck was a mass murderer who went on a rampage and killed eight nursing students in 1966.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Austin’s most famous crime spree before the Tower shooting was the work of a serial killer, not a mass murderer.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Apparently, this reluctant mass murderer was not the only one failing to comply.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But as media historian Kate Eichhorn notes, people may probe an old high school yearbook to learn more about a mass murderer or to scrutinize whether someone is fit for public office.
    — Michael A Messner, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The mass murderer, Dylann Roof, received a death sentence after being convicted of 33 federal hate crime and murder charges.
    — USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • Speck was a real mass murderer who killed eight nursing students in Chicago in 1966, CBS reported.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Kohberger, while not fitting the textbook definition of a serial killer, is still a mass murderer who studied serial killers extensively as part of his graduate degree in criminology.
    — Michael Ruiz , Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The Zodiac Killer is a mass murderer who terrorized the city of San Francisco from 1968 to 1970.
    — Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Online videos appearing to show Idaho mass murderer Bryan Kohberger going about his daily routine in solitary confinement have sparked an investigation.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Global criticism of Israel’s indiscriminate use of force, accusations of genocide, and the portrayal of Netanyahu as a mass murderer on an epic scale were presented to Israelis as mere expressions of anti-Semitism.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Having partnered with other teen mass murderer Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), Stu originally died when Sidney slammed a television onto his screaming face in the 1996 original.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026

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