How to Use assassination in a Sentence

assassination

noun

• There’s bitter irony to the question of how the FBI could have kept such a thorough watch on King and failed to tip him off to an assassination attempt.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2021
• Didn’t know he was drugged the night of the assassination.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
• The first assassination outside of Gaza may be a sign of what’s to come.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2024
• The squib assassinations may be fake, but the pain is very real.
  — The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• The civil rights movement seemed far back in the past — the Montgomery bus boycott, the assassination of MLK, etc.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 June 2024
• And both have been the targets of Israeli assassination attempts in the past.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
• The judge posed a question: What happens to a 12-year-old who Googles his dead father’s name, and sees his assassination on YouTube?
  — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 20 June 2024
• But after the assassination of Kennedy, his dreams of going to space were derailed.
  — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2024
• Giffords was shot in the head and nearly killed in a 2011 assassination attempt.
  — Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
• Goold stages his downfall like a rock opera, with strobes, bursts of loud noise (these are often assassination attempts) and weird dancers.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• Members of the unit look, speak and dress as Arabs to infiltrate protests and conduct assassinations.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The bill finally made it to the House floor again in 1983, fifteen years after King's assassination.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 16 Jan. 2023
• One tragedy of the assassination is that in some measure Booth was successful.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• It was renamed in 1969, after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy the previous year.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• On the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, Williams looks back on that fateful day.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• In Nara, near the site of Abe’s assassination, dozens of people lined up from early Saturday to lay flowers.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Listen, man, the RFK assassination was childhood’s end for me.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
• Waves of crime and unrest have hit Haiti since the assassination of former President Jovenel Moise in 2021.
  — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• In the video, Akbari did not confess to involvement in the assassination but said a British agent had asked for information about Fakhrizadeh.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2023
• Meanwhile, in Tehran, the men who arrange assassinations are under pressure of their own.
  — Karl Vick, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
• So Booth didn’t just commit the assassination of Lincoln.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• Armed gangs have taken power in as much as 90 percent of the Haitian capital since the assassination two years ago of President Jovenel Moïse.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• This is the true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who preached love while plotting the assassination of an evil tyrant.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 20 June 2024
• Activists said the assassination attempt was a turning point in bringing more attention to the cause.
  — Shayndi Raice, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
• Even though The Manchurian Candidate was long rumored to have been pulled from release after Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, that myth isn’t true.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Israel has been preparing for strikes by Iran and the Hezbollah militia for nearly two weeks, after the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
• Is that assassination likely to be a singular act in Japan?
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
• In May, gunmen opened fire on the motorcade of the mayor of Durán, a town outside Guayaquil, in an apparent assassination attempt.
  — Arturo Torres and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Israel, which typically remains silent on targeted assassinations, is believed to have carried out the attack.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• Certainly, the assassination attempt on the former president was completely unacceptable and obviously should never have happened.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024