commit suicide

idiom

: to kill oneself

Examples of commit suicide in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Mariko's seemingly impending suicide is by no means the series' first depiction of that type of ritual, as a number of characters throughout the season have either volunteered or threatened to commit suicide—and a few have actually gone through with it. Megan McCluskey, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024 And Native American teen girls are five times more likely to commit suicide than white teen girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024 Better to make that cell senescent or even induce it to commit suicide. Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024 And even from the point of wanting to commit suicide as a teenager. Okla Jones, Essence, 3 Apr. 2024 Sandra Bullock stars as Malorie Hayes, a woman responsible for transporting two young children down a river while wearing blindfolds, a strategy intended to help the survivors avoid seeing the entities that attacked Earth five years earlier, and who cause those who look upon them to commit suicide. EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024 Dulos was charged with murder in connection to his wife’s death but died on Jan. 30, 2020, after attempting to commit suicide at his Farmington home. Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2024 An estimated 17 to 24 veterans commit suicide per day. Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024 McRae saw cellmates get murdered and commit suicide. Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023

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“Commit suicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commit%20suicide. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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