How to Use premeditation in a Sentence

premeditation

noun
  • But that's not enough time for premeditation.
    — Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That’s a lot of intent, that’s just as good as premeditation the day before.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2020
  • The killers came from Saudi with premeditation to lure, ambush, and kill him.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 22 May 2020
  • The jurors said the fact Moore fired seven rounds drove home premeditation.
    — Dan Morse, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
  • For those kinds of charges to be brought, prosecutors look for premeditation and motive to kill.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Brianna doesn’t like to make plans, shrinks from premeditation.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • What does this level of premeditation tell you about Nate and his intentions?
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The jury believed that Joe killed Mengqi, but not with premeditation.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • But in fact, this parallel development arises more from a state of mind than from any premeditation.
    — Maël Renouard, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • This tweet appears to contain both malice and premeditation of a willful homicide.
    — Howard Gensler, Philly.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • First-degree murder requires a showing of premeditation with the intent to kill.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
  • First-degree murder requires a showing of premeditation with the intent to kill.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Hotchkiss also argued that Meixner’s last words showed premeditation while Dervish was killing him.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • That is, can an otherwise healthy person become a person who kills, not in self-defense or in the heat of battle, but with cool premeditation?
    — Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
  • That requires a bit of premeditation and discussion, as well as spontaneity.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Miss Drury asserts that the whipping did not proceed from impulse but was a matter of careful premeditation.
    — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
  • There is a possibility that the defense may use the schizophrenia to argue that there's no premeditation.
    — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025
  • His lawyers argued the state proved second-degree murder, but not the premeditation required for first-degree murder.
    — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The motion also lays out evidence of premeditation and the brothers' attempts to cover their tracks.
    — arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • That truth starts with the abject brutality and premeditation of the murders themselves.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • During his press conference this week, Hochman discussed the premeditation of the brothers’ killing of their parents.
    — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Martinson was initially indicted on a charge of felony murder, meaning that his son died during the course of child abuse, not due to premeditation.
    — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 15 June 2018
  • Online court records show he is charged with first-degree murder dangerous depraved without premeditation.
    — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
  • There was no premeditation that led to these deaths, however, several precautions could have been taken to prevent this tragic day.
    — Legal Entertainment, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The complaint alleges that Coklas killed with intent but without premeditation, and lists no motive for the shooting.
    — Star Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
  • With first-degree murder charges, prosecutors must show that the accused acted with premeditation or malice.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • He was charged with murder without premeditation and is being held in the Osceola County Jail on no bond, records show.
    — Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Key to that, according to jurors, were instructions given to them by the judge that described premeditation as an element of first-degree murder.
    — Dan Morse, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
  • What separates vigilantism from self-defense is the spontaneity of the latter and the premeditation of the former.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • But there is plenty of premeditation—and a lot of skill—that has gone into making Tran one of the most sought after manicurists in the City of Light.
    — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2022

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