How to Use murder in a Sentence

murder

1 of 2 noun

• Traffic is murder this time of day.
• She was accused of murder.
• The murder was caught on video.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
• All five were booked on murder charges.
  — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
• By then, Clark was charged with murder.
  — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
• The 55-year-old faces a murder charge.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
• Smith is now charged with murder and is being held in jail.
  — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• So why are five of them being charged with murder?
  — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2026
• Count 2, felony murder, guilty.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
• Tire tracks near the murder scene matched his patrol car.
  — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
• Smith is charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Kirk's murder is a tragedy – as is any murder.
  — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
• But the murder rate spiked during his six-year term.
  — Christopher Sabatini, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
• This was murder in the first degree.
  — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• Both men face charges of first-degree murder.
  — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
• He has now been charged with first-degree murder.
  — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
• He has been charged with first-degree murder and felony firearm.
  — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
• Court records show he has been charged with first-degree murder.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• Williams has been charged with murder in the death of the toddler.
  — Raven Brunner, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Terms range from a few weeks for simple theft to eight years for murder.
  — Lynn Marie Stephen, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2020
• Brown has since been charged with first-degree murder.
  — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
• Williams has been charged with one count of first-degree murder.
  — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 29 June 2026
• The migrants who rape and/or murder make up a minute part of that group.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
• At the time of the murders, that would not have even been fathomable.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
• A student was charged with murder.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2026
• But these countries have all cut their murder tolls in half over the past five years.
  — Sean Kennedy, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• His state murder trial is set to start in June.
  — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
• That award went to two parents of a six-year-old child killed in the murder spree.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
• Her teenage son is now charged with Jaxon’s murder.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
• No one was ever charged in Lee’s murder.
  — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025

murder

2 of 2 verb

• The band murdered that song.
• His wife was found murdered.
• He was arrested and accused of murdering his wife.
• Three years ago, my friend’s son was murdered.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• Smith's nephew was 2 years old when his aunt was murdered.
  — Tony Aiello, CBS News, 28 May 2026
• And who is likely to be murdered next?
  — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2026
• Why these four girls were murdered is still unclear.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
• She was murdered by an ex-boyfriend who had been stalking her.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2020
• Look, first and foremost, a man has been murdered.
  — NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
• By this time last year, three people had been murdered in the precinct.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
• The night before he was murdered.
  — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
• There will always be a few who murder, and many who want to hear about it.
  — Ashley Leath, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2021
• My goal was like, Let’s stay on for two or three episodes and get murdered.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
• Who was murdered on 'The Traitors'?
  — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2026
• And more shocking, had been murdered.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
• Who was 'murdered' by 'The Traitors'?
  — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026
• His mother asked my office to help find out who murdered her son.
  — Tanya A. Christian, Essence, 7 Oct. 2019
• But did Paul deserve to be murdered?
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
• They wouldn’t get murdered in their sleep and they wouldn’t get firebombed in their dorm rooms.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2023
• Rinna’s last act as a traitor was to murder a faithful in plain sight.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
• Your tendency, then, is to want to murder them in their sleep.
  — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• That guy wouldn't murder anybody.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
• DiMuzio was found murdered about three weeks later.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
• His quiet getaway ends when a friend’s ex-wife is found murdered.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
• My mother was murdered, and the case was never solved.
  — Gregg Olsen, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
• The real Anne has been murdered.
  — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
• Seven women have been murdered in this house.
  — David K. Li, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
• She had been murdered in a vicious attack.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
• All the kids who were murdered that day were between 9 and 11 years old.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
• The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023