How to Use murderer in a Sentence

murderer

noun
  • The murderer was told where to find a gun.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Putin is a liar and a murderer.
    — CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • If murderers get a stone in here.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • If murderers get a stone in here.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Even the worst murderers on death row.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The kind of faith that makes a man a murderer for doubting it.
    — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Yet in its warrants the state has all but called him a murderer.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The murderer had turned the gun on himself and was no longer a threat.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
  • That case went cold as the murderers were never caught.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • My ex wives were married to a murderer.
    — Vauhini Vara september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The truth is that, in this city, catching the murderer won’t change much.
    — Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Too bad about the murderer running the place.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sit back and let a man go to jail maybe for nine years when murderers aren't going to jail.
    — Jordyn Phelps, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • What did a mass murderer have to fear from a girl’s Doc Martens?
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • This match had no chance to follow a murderers row of great matches on this show.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Bit by bit, Black and her team built a profile of a murderer.
    — Liza Finley, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
  • They could be killed if the murderer thought the kids could identify him or her.
    — Anna-Catherine Brigida, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The guest stars could come in for one episode and play either murderer or victim.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The problem is, so much of our budget goes to who’s the murderer?
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Who'd want a country to be taken over by these killers and these murderers?
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • The murderer on the loose, as the manhunt now spreads across the country.
    — ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • This murderer was from the housing projects, and Matías was, too.
    — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • If the murderer had slipped across to my house, what might I have been caught doing?
    — Karen Brown, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Is there any chance a special guest star could show up next week, swoop in, and play the part of the murderer?
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2021
  • In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.
    — Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • After 29 years in prison, a teenage murderer gets a new start in life from a stranger.
    — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • No witness put him at the scene and no one identified him as the murderer.
    — Chris Joyner, ajc, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Across town, word flew from tongue to tongue that the group would announce its judgment against the murderers.
    — Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe the murderer was living in that little cabin down back of the house?
    — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The news in the local papers have all been about a recent murderer.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Oct. 2022

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