How to Use murderer in a Sentence

murderer

noun
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  • The kind of faith that makes a man a murderer for doubting it.
    — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • This is not the story of a murderer lurking on the shore.
    — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • The movie stars Sarah Drew, a rookie cop who takes a big risk to try and catch a murderer.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
  • This murderer was from the housing projects, and Matías was, too.
    — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The clip hints that Laurie's face-off with the masked murderer might be her last.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The problem is, so much of our budget goes to who’s the murderer?
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • And in nearly 8 out of 10 cases, the murderers go free.
    — Bill Kovarik, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The room is locked from the inside and the murderer has vanished without a trace.
    — Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The viewer knows who is dead, who the murderer is, and often, why the crime occurred.
    — Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
  • They could be killed if the murderer thought the kids could identify him or her.
    — Anna-Catherine Brigida, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The guest stars could come in for one episode and play either murderer or victim.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Did his missing eye get put inside the body of a murderer?
    — Joshua Dudley, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Finding the murderer is based on only one thing: The power of truth.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • This match had no chance to follow a murderers row of great matches on this show.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Throughout the movie, she's tasked with figuring out who the murderer is and what led to her demise.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The news in the local papers have all been about a recent murderer.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Oct. 2022
  • No witness put him at the scene and no one identified him as the murderer.
    — Chris Joyner, ajc, 23 Sep. 2022
  • With a murderer afoot, the group decides to pair off and search the rest of the house for any potential intruders.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The return of a Kander and Ebb classic about celebrity murderers in the Jazz Age.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
  • At the end of the play, the murderer is revealed to be the older sibling of a boy who was killed in an abusive foster home.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
  • In fact, the Heart can even predict if someone will be a murderer or a victim.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • When the network is set in motion, the team must bring down their greatest threat, one murderer at a time.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The face of the murderer, the company predicted, was male.
    — Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There was a huge public inquest, and a few months later the murderer was hanged.
    — Dennis Duncan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • My wife, who is the person who knows who the murderer is within the first 30 seconds of a show, didn't figure it out.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The murderer must be a member of his new friend group, someone on the inside, Joe deduces.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The murderer’s killing spree has been the subject of dozens of television, film and podcast projects.
    — Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The teenage murderer who cut out part of an informant’s tongue.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • The problem now is that Mabel is alone with Marshall, the murderer, at that very moment.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The victim seemed to be in the process of transitioning, and the murderer was gripped by this incredible phobia and rage over that.
    — The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024

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