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Example sentences for "murdered"

Lexicographically close words:
mura; muraille; mural; murals; murder; murderer; murderers; murderess; murdering; murderous
  1. The boy grew into an astonishingly beautiful young man; women idolised him and he was murdered by some jealous rival when still comparatively young.

  2. Whereupon the Raspanti vowed vengeance, assassinated Pandolfo and Pellini Baglioni on their own threshold, and murdered sixty of their clan.

  3. Do you mean, you heathen, that you murdered these helpless, shipwrecked white men?

  4. If she hath murdered the captain, she shall die the death," exclaimed the elder striding about the room, and pausing before the great chair where his pale and fragile wife sat looking up at him with beseeching eyes.

  5. Captain Jones was not an amiable man, his training as buccaneer and slaver having possibly blunted his finer feelings, and his consciousness of present treachery probably increasing the irritability often succeeding to a murdered conscience.

  6. During the recital Colin turned pale as ashes; and when it was done, "I'm sure he murdered him!

  7. In 1850 an Indian of this tribe, having murdered another Indian, was taken prisoner by the civil authorities and carried to Jurupa to be tried.

  8. The Indians strapped him on a horse, and rode back to their village, where, in an open grave, the body of the murdered man had been laid.

  9. First, that Susy d'Orsel had really been murdered and secondly that the King Frederick-Christian had had no hand in it.

  10. His presence in the apartment of the murdered Susy d'Orsel had created an ambiguous and disagreeable situation.

  11. The king was to be murdered on the 15th of February, as he was leaving his palace at Kensington to hunt in Richmond Park.

  12. They say there's a ghost lives inside it, of some man who was murdered under its branches years gone by.

  13. The English Fenians, under their Head Centre Cromwell, drove him from the throne and murdered him on a scaffold in London.

  14. But this good man was murdered in 1520, at the time when Bernardo had just begun a brilliant career in the University of Padua.

  15. The bitterness of the contending parties may be gathered from the fact that Castelvetro was accused of having murdered a friend of Caro's, and Caro of having hired assassins to take Castelvetro's life.

  16. When the Duke was murdered in 1547, he transferred himself to Parma, still following the fortunes of the Farnesi.

  17. Alessandro de' Medici was murdered by Lorenzino in 1537.

  18. Bergamo, story of Calabrians murdered there, i.

  19. It might be going too far to suggest that Berni was murdered by his ecclesiastical enemies, who feared the scandal which would be caused by the publication of his opinions.

  20. It was pedantry that murdered Duke Alessandro, pedantry that flung the Cardinal of Ravenna into prison, and, what is worse, stirred up heresy against our faith through the mouth of that arch-pedant Luther.

  21. Then Mahon was murdered by some such treachery as stains so many pages of Irish history, and Brian became king of all Munster.

  22. The main strength of the defence lay in charging the deed upon the keeper of the house, Rosina Townsend, who was in debt to the murdered girl for such a sum as would make her death desirable.

  23. Why did he not also solve that question, equally perplexing, as to who murdered Ellen Jewett?

  24. Maizan, came to a fatal termination, that gentleman having been barbarously murdered by the sub-chief Hembe.

  25. Should any one attempt to conceal twins, the whole family would be murdered by the chief; but, though a great traveller, this is the only instance of such brutality Manua had ever witnessed in any country.

  26. Their brethren in arms of the same complexion had been murdered in cold blood, after surrender, at Port Pillow and at Plymouth.

  27. Murdered under official sanction, in accordance with premeditated design.

  28. That French maid of mine tells me that you had a rendezvous with the man who was murdered the other day, and that it was at or near to the spot where the body was found.

  29. Are you aware that you are under the gravest suspicion of having murdered Levi Levison?

  30. Leslie had some reason, of which he was ashamed, for dreading the fierce light of a legal inquiry being thrown on his relations with the murdered Jew.

  31. I said, “He states his belief that Wright was murdered by orders of Fouché, for the purpose of ingratiating himself with you.

  32. The morning came, and the mid-day sun began to descend toward the western hills, ere she left the grave of the murdered chief.

  33. My honest dog--a friend who stood the test When others failed--lies murdered at my side!

  34. His brother was murdered at the massacre of Pao'li.

  35. The cultured Hellenes murdered their prisoners of war without hesitation.

  36. As we see from this inscription, he was probably murdered by the country people during his flight.

  37. There the souls of the truly good, who have murdered many of their fellows on earth and fed on their roasted bodies, are lapped in joy for ever.

  38. It is certain that the wooden images represent members of the family who died a natural death at home; they are never, as in Ansoes and Waropen, images of persons who have been murdered or slain in battle.

  39. The ghost of a murdered man in particular is dreaded, because he is believed to haunt his murderer and to do him a mischief.

  40. Sidenote: Pretence of avenging the ghost of a murdered sorcerer.

  41. Having thus given the ghost of the murdered man an unequivocal proof of the sincerity of their friendship, they return quietly home.

  42. Persons who at their death left few relations, or did evil in their life, or were murdered outside of the village, are not buried in the house.

  43. Should he privately accept the offer, he is most careful to conceal his connivance at the deed of blood, lest he should draw down on his head the wrath of his murdered kinsman's ghost.

  44. Unfortunately this is not always the case, the man who is supposed to have exercised the death-spell being sometimes waylaid and murdered in a most cruel manner.

  45. Yet in spite of everything my murdered kinsman will not believe in my innocence!

  46. The relatives of the murdered man at once proceed to retaliate; and thus a constant and never-ending series of murders is always going on.

  47. Sidenote: Comedy acted to deceive the ghost of a murdered kinsman.

  48. It was her awful likeness to the murdered Sir Geoffrey Kynaston.

  49. He is found murdered close to that cottage, of which it seems that at that time you were the only occupant.

  50. Who tracked him down for all his false name and sly ways; hunted him all over Europe, found out who he really was, and why he hated Sir Geoffrey Kynaston so much that he murdered him?

  51. I hold a warrant here for your arrest on the charge of having murdered Sir Geoffrey Kynaston on the 12th of August of last year.

  52. She could see that his whole frame was vibrating with strong internal emotion as he looked downward on the glazed eyes and motionless form of the murdered man.

  53. Mr. Brown was the man who had murdered Sir Geoffrey Kynaston.

  54. In 1487 Lambert Simnel, claiming to be the son of the murdered Clarence, sailed over from Ireland, where he had been crowned by the sister of Richard III, to dispute the new throne of Henry VII.

  55. Sennacherib, as we have seen, was murdered by his sons.

  56. Harold glanced at the motionless figure of the murdered man, and followed.

  57. It was now the sixth or seventh night that Jack and Harry, as usual, kept their lonely watch in the kitchen of the murdered man.

  58. But here let us spare the feelings of the reader, (we wish we could spare our own) and let us only say, without a recital of the cruelty, that they have been murdered at the discretion of their masters.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "murdered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.