Murderer

//ˈmɜːdəɹə//

"Murderer" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The murderer was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Even though he had served his time in prison, the murderer was never quite condoned by the public for his crime.

We were filled with anger against the murderer.

Even now, we still doubt that he is the real murderer.

The others have to try and catch the murderer.

The murderer was finally caught last night.

The murderer is still at large.

The murderer is now on trial.

There was no clue as to the identity of the murderer.

The policeman wrested a gun from the murderer.

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Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.

It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; […]

I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”

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