How to use homicide in a sentence

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• A frustrated robbery may financially cripple the company or lead it to recover; a frustrated homicide or murder leaves the victim injured or wounded, not killed.From the entry frustrated
• Big disclosures has helped make "holdback evidence” a routine part of homicide investigations.2021, Mark Stobbe, The “Mr. Big” Sting. From the entry holdback
• Driving 45 in a school zone is not the same thing as vehicular homicide.2019, Dennis Prager, Mark Joseph, No Safe Spaces. From the entry school zone
• Culpable homicide is called murder when you mean to cause someone to die.2002, Les Vandor, Legal Counsel: Criminal Law - Frequently Asked Questions, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry culpable homicide
• The distinction between murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder is fine but appreciable.1994, Lee Peng Kok, Mental Disorders and the Law, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry culpable homicide
• Sergeant Cronin has handled about 20 Timmys in his six years in homicide.1992 March 17, Andrew H. Malcolm, “Our Towns: A Brief Unnamed Spark; The Rest Is Darkness”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Timmy
• Pedicide victims are much apt to be killed by close relatives than are adult homicide victims.1991, L. Adelson, “Pedicide revisited. The slaughter continues.”, in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. From the entry pedicide
• Border Patrol Agent David Maland near the Canadian border in January and five other homicides in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California.2025 February 17, Michael Casey, “Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike ‘Zizian’ group linked to multiple killings in the US”, in AP…. From the entry Maland
• An Amber Alert for 3-year-old Nola Dinkins was canceled Wednesday as police now investigate the incident as a homicide.2025 June 12, Erin Keller, “Mom claimed a man kidnapped her 3-year-old daughter at gunpoint. Cops now say she is the one who killed the…. From the entry amber alert
• Another myth about NCRMD is that the defence is most commonly used in cases of homicide or other serious violent offences.2019 July 19, Patrick Baillie, “Not criminally responsible, and mental illness: The myths around both put everyone at risk”, in The Globe…. From the entry NCRMD
• In short order, we witness homicide, infanticide and even equicide.2017 August 2, George Prentice, “To Die For: In Lady Macbeth, revenge (and just about everything else) is served cold”, in Boise Weekly…. From the entry equicide
• Southerners do not outkill northerners in homicides carried out during robberies, they found, only in those sparked by quarrels.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 119. From the entry outkill
• It’s clear he must be, because you wouldn’t be taking out proceedings for homicide on behalf of someone who wasn’t family.2010, Plato, “Euthyphro”, in Christopher Rowe, transl., The Last Days of Socrates, Penguin Books Ltd., →ISBN, line 4b. From the entry proceedings
• Do you realize that this is homicide?2009, Michelle McGriff, Blood Relations, West Babylon, N.Y.: Urban Books, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry yadadamean
• In fact, by the eleventh century, a term was invented for killing non-Christians, since this was not to be considered homicide.2008, Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence. The History of a Dangerous Idea. Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, page 33. From the entry malicide
• This essentially and truly implicated one of the most respected homicide detectives in Boston, all based on my initial tip.2007 February, Brian McGrory, chapter 40, in Strangled, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 314. From the entry lede
• Gun in my sleeve 'cause nowadays homicide is my steez.2006, “Battle Cry”, in The Torture Papers, performed by Army of the Pharaohs. From the entry steez
• Outside, a gang of grackles combed the landscaped lawn like a homicide squad dragging a field for evidence.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 164. From the entry grackle
• His long snout and extra-rich sense of smell had sniffed out a whole batch of homicides and dogicides.1995, Jeff Noon, Pollen, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry dogicide
• He portrays the duality of a land of crisp green lawns where homicide is acceptable but homosexuality repulsive.1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry judgmentalism
• Why should a homicide with all the obvious possibilities look like a bit of frame work for two men?1970, E[mil] Richard Johnson, The God Keepers, Harper & Row, →LCCN, page 96. From the entry fish-eyed
• Kalabari differed from all the other states in having a female tutelary deity, Owame Akaso, who prohibited homicide within her community.1963, G[william] I[wan] Jones, “The Eastern Delta State at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century”, in The Trading States of the Oil…. From the entry tutelary deity
• Your thoughts consider Ailurocide combined with a little homicide justifiable.1955, James D[aniel] McCrae, Experimental Breeding; Genetics of the Feline, Caribou, Me.: Caribou Publishing Company, page 8. From the entry ailurocide
• One French functionary drew distinction between homicide and animalicide.1918, Herbert Adams Gibbons, The New Map of Africa (1900-1916): A History of European Expansion and Colonial Diplomacy, page 349. From the entry animalicide
• This specimen was of English parentage, was a professional burglar, a confirmed recidivist, and—since he habitually carried firearms—a potential homicide.1914, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 2, in The Uttermost Farthing. From the entry recidivist
• Foul play was not suspected, said Cap Scot Williams, who leads the city’s police robbery homicide division that is investigating Perry’s death.2023 October 30, Sian Cain, “Friends stars release statement after death of Matthew Perry: ‘We were more than just castmates’”, in The…. From the entry foul play
• Drawing on NCAVP transgender homicide data, research has found that transfeminine Black and Latina individuals are at significantly higher risk for homicide than cisfeminine counterparts.2020, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz & Carolyn M. West, "The Intersections of Race and Immigration", in Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A…. From the entry cisfeminine
• In other words, familicide is a multiple-victim homicide in which the killer's spouse or partner and one or more children are killed.2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural…. From the entry familicide
• Physical disorder measured in the SSO is only moderately correlated with rates of predatory crime measured by police-recorded rates of homicide, robbery, and burglary.1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban…. From the entry SSO
• Thus we have a clear division between homicide, which falls within the biblical law of persons, and aborticide, which is treated as a tort.1998, Lenn Evan Goodman, Judaism, human rights, and human values, page 88. From the entry aborticide
• In these clauses a lord had the duty of yielding up his esne if he was guilty of homicide and paying the dead man's wergeld.1995, David Anthony Edgell Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England: From the Reign of Alfred Until the Twelfth Century, →ISBN. From the entry wergeld
• The text of the Drakonian homicide law adumbrates another kind of boundary beginning to form: a public distinction between Athenians and non-Athenians.1990, Philip Brook Manville, “Laws, Boundaries, and Centralization”, in The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens, Princeton, N.J.…. From the entry Drakonian
• A probably trustworthy fifth-century BC copy of his homicide law survives, but the account of the ‘Draconian constitution’ given by Aristotle is almost certainly spurious.1987, Ian Morris, “Introduction: the argument”, in Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State (New Studies in…. From the entry Dracon
• Rittenhouse was acquitted in November of first-degree intentional homicide and four other felony charges related to the Kenosha shootings that left two men dead and a third man injured.2022 January 10, Omar Jimenez, Kelly McCleary, “Dominick Black, who bought Kyle Rittenhouse the gun used in Kenosha shootings, has taken a…. From the entry Kenosha
• As I routinely foamed up his grand lattes, he’d share details about his homicide cases (not to mention his rocky marriage, which was still bordering on divorce).2006, Cleo Coyle, chapter 2, in Murder Most Frothy, Penguin, page 22. From the entry foam up
• The only exception to that edict was the Eighth, the French Quarter district, since any homicide at the core of the tourist area was such a potential red ball.2005, Eileen Dreyer, Sinners and Saints, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL. From the entry red ball
• Kovert suffered from a paraschizophrenic condition, and was a totally irresponsible psychotic whom neither policemen, nor the entire United States Army, would have deterred from the homicide.1955, Court-martial Reports: Holdings and Decisions of the Judge Advocates General, Boards of Review and United States Court of Military…. From the entry paraschizophrenic

Meaning of homicide

1. noun The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
2. noun A person who kills another.
3. noun A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.

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Questions about homicide in a sentence

How do you use homicide in a sentence?

Homicide is used as a noun. For example: “Homicides in general and victorious warriors in particular are often obliged to perform a variety of ceremonies for the purpose of ridding them of the dangerous ghosts of their victims.”

What is a short sentence with homicide?

“Do you realize that this is homicide?”

What does homicide mean?

Homicide means the killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.