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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Our Uncle was the president and after the coup, he was assassinated.
  — Emanuel Okusanya, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
• He was charged with attempting to assassinate the justice.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• In this case, the end result was that a mob broke into your Parliament and attempted to assassinate the vice president.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
• In 1978, the epoch-making gay politician Harvey Milk was assassinated in his office at City Hall.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Hasina sought to make Mujib, who was assassinated in 1975, immortal in the minds of the people and emblematic of the valor of her rule and that of her party.
  — Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024
• Reva spent her adult life pretending to believe in the values of the Sith, climbing the career ladder of the Inquisitors in the hope of getting close enough to Vader to assassinate him.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• The head of the local emergency committee, Nidal al-Eid, was assassinated last week.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
• The officer, who had posed as a Syrian refugee, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for a far-right plot to assassinate prominent public figures.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2022
• Over the past two decades, Israel has tried to assassinate Mohammed Deif several times, maiming him in attacks and killing his wife and baby son.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• Kennedy, the son and namesake of Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated while running for president in 1968, has not made a formal announcement.
  — Trip Gabriel, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Most of the people who took leadership roles in those conflicts were assassinated or run out by the local population.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
• In the episode, several characters plot to assassinate the president.
  — Conor Murray, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024