How to Use assassinate in a Sentence

assassinate

verb

• They discovered a secret plot to assassinate the governor.
• President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
• In the Bible, God sometimes sends them to assassinate us.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2021
• Posts on the page made threats to assassinate President Joe Biden ahead of his visit to Utah.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• The tour was not yet over when Rauschenberg learned that Kennedy had been assassinated.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• This is his crime: not trying to assassinate Chief Powhatan, but wounding one of his own.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2021
• Queen Esther showed great courage by telling the Persian king about a plan to assassinate him, and later, a plan to have all the Jews in Persia killed.
  — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 21 Dec. 2022
• The attacks come amid news of a plot to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• Quin at one time also tried to assassinate Count Dooku.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 1 June 2022
• Lessard was more convinced than ever that goons were out to assassinate her.
  — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
• But the owner of the company and a group of Haitian businessmen, the police here say, instead took part in a plan to assassinate Mr. Moïse.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 31 July 2021
• Such as the Maquis, who'd hid out in the mountains and snuck down at night to assassinate the occupying Germans and blow up railway lines?
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• Von Braunmühl has been shot, assassinated, outside his house, on the street a few hundred feet from my home [by a member of the RAF].
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2023
• He was assassinated and that started World War I, so maybe that’s a bad title.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
• At the end of the war, Campbell was arrested on suspicion of being part of the plot to assassinate Lincoln.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
• Meanwhile, the police test out an AI system that will both accuse someone of a crime and go ahead and assassinate them.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• The nation failed to live up to the ideals expressed by Lincoln, who was assassinated the following month.
  — Reading (pa.) Eagle Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2024
• In its dark recesses, heavy with the stench of disease and death, Kurtz attempts to explain himself to the man assigned to assassinate him.
  — Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2022
• In his state-of-the-nation speech Wednesday, Putin claimed that Western countries had plotted to assassinate Lukashenko.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• He’s there to kill her. Lisey reminds Jim that every character has to be used twice, but that Cole, the young man who tried to assassinate Scott, was only used once.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 9 July 2021
• He was involved in Operation Valkyrie, the plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944.
  — Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
• The idea that Harding might have been assassinated wasn’t confined to craven opportunists or the crackpot fringe.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
• Slater is charged with trying to hire the couple of FBI informants to assassinate his ex-girlfriend, sometime in June 2020.
  — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2021
• As one of the main antagonists of the movie—which was released 20 years ago today!—Mugatu is out to brainwash Zoolander in a wacky plot to assassinate the president of Malaysia.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2021
• Militants tried to assassinate him twice in 2003 by targeting his convoy, first with a bomb planted on a bridge and then with car bombs.
  — Jon Gambrell and Munir Ahmed, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
• For us, this is a second attempt to assassinate the president.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2021
• There's also a replica of the derringer pistol John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Lincoln.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 13 May 2022
• In the run up to these elections, more than 30 candidates were assassinated.
  — Eyder Peralta, NPR, 3 June 2024
• That event came weeks after a 20-year-old man attempted to assassinate Trump during an open-air campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
• The Ukrainian Bach would be assassinated by a Soviet security spy in 1921.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025