How to Use commit suicide in a Sentence

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  • And even from the point of wanting to commit suicide as a teenager.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 3 Apr. 2024
  • No, the actor playing Barney did not commit suicide in the suit (or at all)...
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The county has seen four veterans commit suicide in the past month, with the most recent on Sept. 13.
    James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • His lover commit suicide the next day, jumping from a window.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In this version, Adams did not commit suicide but was killed by police.
    Chris Joyner, ajc, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Better to make that cell senescent or even induce it to commit suicide.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But after his wife dies, the 60-year-old becomes depressed and decides to commit suicide.
    Allison Cho, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
  • However, things take a turn for the worse when the professor appears to commit suicide.
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
  • High school girls were also more likely than boys to report having a plan to commit suicide.
    Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Black gay boys are eight times more likely to commit suicide than their counterparts.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 15 Oct. 2022
  • And unfortunately, those are just the type of people that tend to commit suicide.
    Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The parent of one student, who is Jewish, told the Washington Post their child was asked to act like Hitler and pretend to commit suicide at the end of the reenactment.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Runner up: The death of Susie, the coworker Elaine invented then had commit suicide.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Radio presenter Lara is caught in a game of cat-and-mouse with a caller ton her program who threatens to commit suicide.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The plot revolves two outcasts in school who planned to commit suicide but decided to take revenge on the girl who made their lives miserable.
    Rebecca Souw, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Among people 15-24, white people are more than twice as likely to commit suicide, while Black men are nine times more likely to die by homicide.
    NBC News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Jurkowski cast a Jewish student as Hitler and told him to pretend to commit suicide, as Hitler did, according to the parent of a student in the class.
    Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Men are twice as likely to overdose, three and a half times more likely to commit suicide and are more than nine times more likely to be incarcerated.
    Scott Galloway, CNN, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Not wanting to die is like not actively trying to hurt myself or bring myself down or commit suicide.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2022
  • People have been sending us messages to commit suicide.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • Searches on how to commit suicide by drinking antifreeze.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The team also discovered that stalkers were 80 times more likely to commit suicide compared to the Australian public.
    Eric Taipale, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The film begins with Ali (played by Navid Mohammadzadeh), having given up on life, attempting to commit suicide.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Committee members showed a host of TikTok videos that encouraged users to harm themselves and commit suicide.
    Farnoush Amiri, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The arrest affidavit claims the messages included threats to commit drive-by shootings, a mass shooting in Lake County and to commit suicide.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • According to the National Council on Aging, this group is at higher risk than the already high risk group of elders likely to commit suicide.
    Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • At the center of one is a human heart with a scorpion nestled inside, a reference to the belief that the venomous arachnids sometimes commit suicide.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Committee members also showed a host of TikTok videos that encouraged users to harm themselves and commit suicide.
    Haleluya Hadero and Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Voes said their son attempted to commit suicide by ingesting a bottle of aspirin the day Abbott’s directive was issued.
    Dallas News, 10 June 2022
  • The magazine ran no legal risks by telling its readers how not to commit suicide, so its editors filled many pages with methodological caveats.
    Anne Fadiman, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021

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