How to Use fratricide in a Sentence

fratricide

noun

• The Square and indulges in casual fratricide and a spot of naked, fiery volcano-side wrestling in the recent Viking epic The Northman.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2022
• Viewers already watched Taffy pull off the near-perfect fratricide and, as Poker Face‘s structure tends to do, the episode travels back in time to see how Charlie spots the lies and solves the crime.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• The horror of fratricide is merely the price of admission to the family drama Penn here relates.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2020
• Noel’s departure from the band seemed to be musical fratricide.
  — D.i., The Economist, 26 June 2019
• Or, for that matter, stories of mass Jewish fratricide.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 9 Dec. 2020
• Here, Hamlet is a melancholy suburban prince named Juicy, in a Black family rocked by betrayal and fratricide and ghosts who pop out of backyard grills.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Bird explained to Vancouver news outlet CTV that a fratricide is possible should the eaglets get hungry.
  — National Geographic, 13 June 2017
• Be Prepared,’’ steeped in shadows and complete with goose-stepping hyenas pledging their fealty to the dastardly Scar, intent on both regicide and fratricide.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The starfighters use their maneuverability to fly between the capital ships of the Final Order and keep their guns silent for fear of committing fratricide.
  — Angry Staff Officer, Wired, 24 Dec. 2019
• The wolf symbolized the republic’s propensity for fratricide: our own Romulus and Remus saga, the high point of which culminated in the Civil War and its aftermath.
  — Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Twin Cities, 28 July 2019
• Orlando likewise finds his way there, in flight from his own fratricide-minded brother, Oliver (Aubrey Deeker Hernandez).
  — James Hebert, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
• The maps are triggering political fratricide – pitting sitting New York House Democrats against one another.
  — Fox News, 23 May 2022
• Fleeing for his life, the boy vows revenge as well as to liberate his mother (Nicole Kidman), with dad having helpfully given him a pep talk about the importance of vengeance even before this act of fratricide cemented Amleth's destiny.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• At the time of the fratricide in Absalom, Absalom!, the two brothers have just returned from fighting for the Confederacy, though their experiences in battle are never related in any detail.
  — Benjamin Nugent, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• The hour-long score proved rich material for this unusual semistaged performance, lending physical form to this gnarly tale of fratricide and supernatural revenge.
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2017
• Yet Western culture has been haunted for millennia by the wretched House of Atreus – cursed through the generations with fratricide, patricide, filicide, mariticide, and matricide.
  — Steven G. Kellman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2017
• Republican insiders acknowledge the trend is ominous and worry GOP fratricide could exacerbate it.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 22 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024