At the least he resolved to save his honor and reputation by committing suicide, and he and his wife were found one morning hanging up in the hall of the yamen.
The garrison were massacred to the last man, and Wou Shufan only avoided a worse fate by committing suicide.
The unlucky general who had promised so much anticipated his master's displeasure by committing suicide.
Reviewing the various methods of committing suicide he found none to his taste, and resolved on something new.
Caen describes a woman of twenty-six, while in prison awaiting trial, succeeding in committing suicide by introducing about 30 pins and needles in the chest region, over the heart.
He spoke of committing suicide, but evidently for the purpose of attracting attention and sympathy.
After saying this, and so diverting the Brahman from his intention of committing suicide, the king entrusted him to the care of the merchant, and retired to his palace.
With these words that man consoled me, and then departed somewhere or other, but I have come here, having abandoned my design of committing suicide.
But when the queen was bent on committing suicide, he consented, for how can men who are attracted by the objects of passion remain in the good path?
In my shame and despair I thought of committing suicide, and sitting down again, I recollected my brutal speeches, and upbraided myself for having wantonly caused them to weep.
Ganganelli thought it better to let his subjects skip than to give them the opportunity of ruining themselves, of committing suicide, or of becoming brigands; but Rezzonico did not see the matter in that light.
Then I lay down and began to consider whether the good-natured young man would prevent me committing suicide, as he had already made me postpone it.
Most of 'em seem to think that when we're not on the drink we're whipping the cat or committing suicide.
It must be recollected that the Jews considered that a man was justified in committing suicide to prevent his falling into the enemy’s hand, and on this account Saul was commended for killing himself.
It proved, that he had never abandoned the desire of committing suicide; but he so well concealed it, and otherwise conducted himself, as to lead to the conclusion that he had recovered.
When the throne of Sardanapalus was endangered, he conceived a magnificent and truly luxurious mode of committing suicide, quite in character with the extravagance and dissoluteness of his former life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "committing suicide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
