How to Use murder in a Sentence
- Traffic is murder this time of day.
- She was accused of murder.
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The murder was caught on video.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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All five were booked on murder charges.
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Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
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By then, Clark was charged with murder.
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Evy Lewis,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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The 55-year-old faces a murder charge.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Sep. 2025
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Smith is now charged with murder and is being held in jail.
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Matthew Ablon,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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So why are five of them being charged with murder?
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Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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Count 2, felony murder, guilty.
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Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Tire tracks near the murder scene matched his patrol car.
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Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2026
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Smith is charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon.
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Rebecca Rosenberg,
Fox News,
4 Nov. 2022
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Kirk's murder is a tragedy – as is any murder.
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Peter D'abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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But the murder rate spiked during his six-year term.
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Christopher Sabatini,
Time,
30 Aug. 2025
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This was murder in the first degree.
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Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Both men face charges of first-degree murder.
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Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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He has now been charged with first-degree murder.
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Peter D'abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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He has been charged with first-degree murder and felony firearm.
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Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
4 July 2026
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Court records show he has been charged with first-degree murder.
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Lyric Li,
Washington Post,
8 Sep. 2022
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Williams has been charged with murder in the death of the toddler.
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Raven Brunner,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Terms range from a few weeks for simple theft to eight years for murder.
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Lynn Marie Stephen,
The Conversation,
24 Aug. 2020
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Brown has since been charged with first-degree murder.
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Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Williams has been charged with one count of first-degree murder.
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Lauren Victory,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
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The migrants who rape and/or murder make up a minute part of that group.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2026
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At the time of the murders, that would not have even been fathomable.
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Katie Campione,
Deadline,
26 Sep. 2025
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A student was charged with murder.
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CBS News,
28 May 2026
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But these countries have all cut their murder tolls in half over the past five years.
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Sean Kennedy,
WSJ,
7 Feb. 2020
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His state murder trial is set to start in June.
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CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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That award went to two parents of a six-year-old child killed in the murder spree.
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Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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Her teenage son is now charged with Jaxon’s murder.
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Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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No one was ever charged in Lee’s murder.
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Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
- The band murdered that song.
- His wife was found murdered.
- He was arrested and accused of murdering his wife.
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Three years ago, my friend’s son was murdered.
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Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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Smith's nephew was 2 years old when his aunt was murdered.
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Tony Aiello,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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And who is likely to be murdered next?
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Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Feb. 2026
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Why these four girls were murdered is still unclear.
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Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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Look, first and foremost, a man has been murdered.
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NBC news,
14 Sep. 2025
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By this time last year, three people had been murdered in the precinct.
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Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
5 Mar. 2026
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The night before he was murdered.
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Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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My goal was like, Let’s stay on for two or three episodes and get murdered.
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Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
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Who was murdered on 'The Traitors'?
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Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Feb. 2026
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And more shocking, had been murdered.
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Dateline Nbc,
NBC news,
8 Oct. 2025
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Who was 'murdered' by 'The Traitors'?
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Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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But did Paul deserve to be murdered?
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Oline H. Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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Rinna’s last act as a traitor was to murder a faithful in plain sight.
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Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
3 Feb. 2026
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That guy wouldn't murder anybody.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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DiMuzio was found murdered about three weeks later.
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Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
22 Mar. 2026
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His quiet getaway ends when a friend’s ex-wife is found murdered.
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Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2026
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My mother was murdered, and the case was never solved.
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Gregg Olsen,
PEOPLE,
26 June 2026
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The real Anne has been murdered.
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Allison Degrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
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Seven women have been murdered in this house.
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David K. Li,
NBC news,
23 Apr. 2026
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She had been murdered in a vicious attack.
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Dateline Nbc,
NBC news,
22 Oct. 2025
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All the kids who were murdered that day were between 9 and 11 years old.
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Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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Then, while in that process, Charlie Kirk was murdered.
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Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
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Their lives are turned upside down when Nancy is murdered.
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Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Feb. 2026
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The charge is nothing less than a threat to murder the president.
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Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
28 Apr. 2026
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And then at night a mischievous traitor that will be murdering people.
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Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
9 Jan. 2026
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Despite her claims, Wuornos was found guilty of murdering six of the men.
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Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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If his approach were truly that wrong, he would have been murdered or voted out by now.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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