How to Use suicide pact in a Sentence

suicide pact

noun
  • But neither of us has a suicide pact.
    — Vandana Pawa, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Ronit Yudkevitch stars as Yehudit, a sheltered farmer’s wife who backs out of a suicide pact that leaves her husband dead.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 June 2026
  • The bot suggested that Pierre sacrifice himself to save humanity, even proposing a suicide pact.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Three weeks before the shooting, the couple had made a murder-suicide pact, FOX 35 reported.
    — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Over the years, Beverley has claimed that Vicious and Spungen had a suicide pact, fueling rumors that the bass player had intended to kill himself.
    — Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • The congressional power to declare war, like the rest of the Constitution, is not, to paraphrase Justice Robert Jackson, a suicide pact.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Penelope Wilton are teaming on an ITV drama about a woman who survived a joint suicide pact with the love of her life and was subsequently arrested and charged with his murder.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026
  • In 1987, four teenagers in Bergenfield, New Jersey, entered a car in a garage after making a suicide pact, starting the engine and dying minutes later of carbon monoxide poisoning.
    — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

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