Assassin

"Assassin" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The assassin smothered his victim with a pillow.

The assassin was Charles Guiteau.

Tom was killed by a hired assassin.

When the thought of what I had done came to mind, I felt like an assassin.

The assassin was immediately caught, put into a car and driven away from the crime scene.

Love has risen before us, like an assassin in the night, and has reached the two of us.

Sami was a seasoned assassin.

Sami dressed like a ninja assassin.

Layla dressed as a ninja assassin for Halloween.

There was something so methodical and so incomprehensible about the deeds of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes.

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The hand that held the bond of so many jarring interests lay powerless beneath the pall. The perils of war had been about him, and the midnight assassin had watched his path; yet he died quietly in his bed.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause can ever be stilled by an assassin’s bullet.

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists of a soveraigne devotion and puritie of maners; they hold, that the readiest and shortest way to gaine Paradise, is to kill some one of a contrary religion[…].

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