How to Use assassinate in a Sentence

assassinate

verb

• They discovered a secret plot to assassinate the governor.
• President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
• Posts on the page made threats to assassinate President Joe Biden ahead of his visit to Utah.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• The tour was not yet over when Rauschenberg learned that Kennedy had been assassinated.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Von Braunmühl has been shot, assassinated, outside his house, on the street a few hundred feet from my home [by a member of the RAF].
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2023
• He was assassinated and that started World War I, so maybe that’s a bad title.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
• The idea that Harding might have been assassinated wasn’t confined to craven opportunists or the crackpot fringe.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
• Our Uncle was the president and after the coup, he was assassinated.
  — Emanuel Okusanya, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
• In 1978, the epoch-making gay politician Harvey Milk was assassinated in his office at City Hall.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• The head of the local emergency committee, Nidal al-Eid, was assassinated last week.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
• Over the past two decades, Israel has tried to assassinate Mohammed Deif several times, maiming him in attacks and killing his wife and baby son.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• Kennedy, the son and namesake of Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated while running for president in 1968, has not made a formal announcement.
  — Trip Gabriel, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• In 2019, a politician who spoke out against the anti-immigrant far right was assassinated by a right-wing extremist.
  — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• They were both assassinated with a car bomb in Washington, D.C., that was ordered by Chile’s secret police in 1976.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• In the months before he was assassinated, Moïse was a man on edge, increasingly worried about his legacy.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in 1968, and his hotel room and balcony are preserved as a centerpiece of the exhibit.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 26 June 2023
• Filming on the latter was stopped twice, once when President Kennedy was assassinated and again when Sinatra’s son was kidnapped.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2024
• Penn won the Oscar for his uncanny portrayal of Milk, who was assassinated in 1978.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• The suit mentions her nationality and that he was assassinated in front of his home two months after turning 40.
  — Andy Hoffman, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
• Abe was assassinated in July 2022, but his legacy lives on.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• The timepiece was gifted to Lennon by Ono just months before the Beatles songwriter was assassinated in 1980.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2023
• He was assassinated in front of his home in November 2000 – a tragedy that attracted the attention of Brazil’s national press.
  — Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• Zahedi would be the most senior Iranian commander known to have been assassinated since the war in Gaza began.
  — Jane Arraf, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
• Dexter King was 7 years old when his father was assassinated.
  — Harold Maass, theweek, 23 Jan. 2024
• The war began after a fringe Palestinian group tried to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.
  — Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2023
• Smith, who lives a few blocks from the home where civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated six decades ago, believes Capitol Police officers shot the bullet that hit her.
  — Casey Tolan, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• Bar compared the mission to Israel’s operation to assassinate militants behind the 1972 killings of members of its Olympic team in Munich.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• The Israeli military had dropped the bombs into their home to assassinate a commander of the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad who lived in the apartment below.
  — Raja Abdulrahim Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• In the midst of political upheaval not seen since the country’s president was assassinated in 2021, Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, agreed to step down.
  — Frances Robles, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The White House then appeared to formally acknowledge that the government believes Prigozhin was assassinated by Putin.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024