How to Use homicide in a Sentence

homicide

noun

• The number of homicides increased last year.
• He has been arrested for homicide.
• The city had no homicides last year.
  — Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
• The death was ruled a homicide.
  — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
• His death was ruled a homicide.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026
• Her death was ruled a homicide.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
• No one has been charged in his homicide.
  — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• It’s been a tough year with high rates of homicides.
  — Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• Both deaths were ruled homicides.
  — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• Their deaths were ruled homicides.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
• The killing is the fifth homicide in the city in four days.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
• That’s quite a homicide rate for the Navy.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
• Amuche’s death marked the city’s 9th homicide of the year.
  — Jason Green, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
• But homicides in the city are trending down this year.
  — Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
• He was booked into jail on counts of homicide.
  — Brandon Downs, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
• The manner of death was ruled a homicide.
  — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
• Her manner of death was ruled a homicide.
  — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
• Ariel has pleaded not guilty to the charge of homicide by abuse.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• By this time last year, there were seven homicides.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2025
• That compares to eight homicides by this time last year.
  — Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
• That compares to four homicides at this point last year.
  — Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
• The death marked then city’s 26th homicide of the year.
  — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
• This is the fourth homicide in the city this year, police said.
  — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 1 May 2026
• Last year, the city saw just twenty-four homicides.
  — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
• Her father’s death was ruled a homicide.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
• Pretti's death has been ruled a homicide.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
• The shooting was the city's 4th homicide of the year.
  — Tim Fang, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
• An autopsy ruled the cause of death a homicide, the post says.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 May 2026
• But none of those deaths have been classified yet as a homicide.
  — Theodore Rose, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2026
• His death was ruled a homicide caused by a gunshot wound to the torso.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026