Assassination

//əˌsæs.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən//

"Assassination" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Investigators uncovered an assassination plot.

Older people still remember the Kennedy assassination.

There were assassination theories but it was not clear who would have killed him and for what reason. Even now the truth about his death is unclear.

History is like quantum physics: the observer affects the event observed. Is the Kennedy assassination a particle or a wave?

Despite the government's protection, he was the victim of an assassination attempt which killed him.

Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar not many years before, and they generally have their origin in violent deaths, or in execution of innocent persons.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly: if the assassination / Could trammel up the consequence, and catch / With his surcease success; that but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all here, / But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, / We'd jump the life to come.

The anniversary of the assassination of Itzhak Rabin is a national mourning day.

The assassination plot failed.

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The assassination of the king occurred at night.

But side by side with it was a baser conspiracy, among the more unprincipled and desperate friends of James, for the assassination of the King.

Liu's agents pursued him and he escaped assassination only by throwing his clothing away by the Chʻien-tʻang River near Hangchow, thus suggesting suicide.

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