ASSASSINATE in a Sentence

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1. No, on the contrary, they wished to assassinate him.
2. For the assassination itself I had never felt any remorse.
3. assassinations of the Orsini and Vitelli at Sinigalia, and.
4. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination.
5. The victory was completed by the assassination of the vanquished.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASSASSINATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
assassinate
 v.  murder; especially of socially prominent persons
 v.  destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
2  It was almost imperceptible motions of his eyes, fingers placed upon the lips, little assassinating smiles, which really did assassinate the disdained beauty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
3  When you have given the letter to Lord de Winter and he has read it, you will further say to him: Watch over his Grace Lord Buckingham, for they wish to assassinate him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
4  No, on the contrary, they wished to assassinate him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 109. The Assizes.
5  I don't believe I could bear her vaporings three times a day and, moreover, I believe Uncle Peter would assassinate me before he would let me live under the sacred Hamilton roof.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
6  Great public assassinations, political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of civilization, and thrust their corpses there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
7  assassinations of the Orsini and Vitelli at Sinigalia, and.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ...
8  Everything points to the conclusion, sire," said the minister of police, "that death was not the result of suicide, as we first believed, but of assassination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Corsican Ogre.
9  Well, I shall write to the abbe; I shall hold him responsible for his protege's misconduct, and I shall soon know all about this assassination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil.
10  I uttered a cry of joy; the only moments of sadness I had known since the assassination of the procureur were caused by the recollection that I had abandoned this child.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
11  For the assassination itself I had never felt any remorse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
12  My voluntary confession of the assassination at Auteuil proved to him that I had not committed that of which I stood accused.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
13  The victory was completed by the assassination of the vanquished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
14  Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
15  I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I am speaking of actual facts.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence:
1  A full-scale character assassination of the dead woman got underway in the tabloid press.
2  She would like an investigation into the assassination of her husband.
3  Labor Party leaders have denounced the talk as an attempt by the right to escape indirect blame for the assassination.
4  The defence lawyer attempted a character assassination of the witness.
5  The assassination is a terrible, terrible, unspeakable loss for his family and friends.
6  The FBI has seized a two-page, handwritten letter of condolence sent by Jacqueline Kennedy to the widow of Robert F. Kennedy shortly after he was assassinated in 1968.
7  "Watson! Behind you!" Holmes tried to exclaim, seeing the assassin hurl himself on his friend.
8  In his open car, the President was a sitting target for assassins.