murdered

Example Sentences

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Both of Paul Celan’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday, Baroness Lawrence, the mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, shared her condolences with the Nowak family.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Even so many years later, the indictment is a welcome attempt to provide justice for the murdered Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

She spoke of one audience member, a relative of someone who was murdered, who became more open to a debate about the merits of capital punishment after seeing the opera.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Relying on these criteria, he accepted the reliability of evidence for apparitions, for the body of the murdered bleeding in the presence of the murderer, for alchemy, and so forth.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton