How to Use infanticide in a Sentence

infanticide

noun

• Anyway, Lillith hasn’t told anyone about her infanticide and is cradling a creepy doll in Adam’s place.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021
• She was convicted in Williamson County of infanticide and sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing Chelsea.
  — Ralph Ellis, Randi Kaye and Dakin Andone, CNN, 26 May 2017
• Examples: the effects of the torture device in Saw III, the infanticide-by-mob in mother!
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2022
• The rise in infanticide also occurs before the pine cones have even sprouted.
  — Jessica Haines, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2018
• In chimpanzees and other primates that kill each other, infanticide is the most common form of killing.
  — National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2016
• The Power of Darkness crossed with the Kerry Babies double-infanticide scandal of the mid-1980s).
  — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 4 Nov. 2021
• The root cause of the murder of girls (gendercide), whether through feticide or infanticide, is the hideously distorted view of a girl’s value.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 26 May 2017
• Experts have told us abortions up to the moment of birth, what could be described as infanticide, are not happening in the United States.
  — Author: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2020
• The team found that 65 percent of these species are known to commit infanticide, compared to just 34 percent in species whose babies have the same coat colors as their parents.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
• There was once a custom of infanticide in certain regions of Japan, practiced when the family had too many children to feed.
  — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• When proven wrong on this first point, Democrats pivot to the assertion that laws already exist to prevent infanticide.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2020
• To the Romans’ surprise, the Egyptians didn’t have a common practice of infanticide of unwanted girls.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2022
• Who doesn't love a little didactic infanticide with their hot dog binge?
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 4 July 2019
• Mother bears have a difficult choice: Take their cubs nearer to humans or risk infanticide by males looking to mate.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2016
• To the author’s chagrin, infanticide was also borne out by research.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Garner’s mother-in-law did not condemn the infanticide.
  — Nell Irvin Painter, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
• This is a pitch-black book, with infanticide, suicide, rape and any number of other dark subjects playing a prominent part.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
• There is no reference to infanticide, but La Llorona is portrayed as a ghost after being murdered by her husband.
  — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Venice prizewinner centers around a real-life infanticide court case in which the mother, a doctoral student, claims sorcery as the culprit.
  — Shalini Dore, Variety, 2 Nov. 2022
• Support for infanticide is becoming respectable in the United States as well.
  — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 19 Nov. 2019
• Four of them died during the winter (before weaning), whereas only six of the 40 infants who were allonursed died (and this includes two cases of male infanticide that occurred when a new male took over a group).
  — National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2019
• Public shame, such as that of Laurence, is thereby invested with a certain nobility; infanticide is raised to the level of myth.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
• Tonally, there’s no easy way to play Abnesti or his human guinea pigs, each of whom has been locked away for some truly heinous act — like infanticide, murder or licensing the rights for a George Saunders stories to Netflix.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 June 2022
• The bill was supported by Gov. Ralph Northam, who, while defending it on a radio program, appeared to also endorse infanticide.
  — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2020
• Practices that were once crimes, like fornication and adultery, or that are still crimes, like incest, infanticide, and rape, generally lie outside the scope of his concern.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
• The idea behind safe haven laws was to stop maternal infanticide, the extraordinarily rare, headline-grabbing story of a newborn found in a garbage can.
  — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• For decades Cheney has documented infanticide in baboons in Botswana, where the behavior accounts for at least 50 percent of all infant deaths.
  — Divya Abhat, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• For decades Cheney has documented infanticide in baboons in Botswana, where the behavior accounts for at least 50 percent of all infant deaths.
  — Divya Abhat, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• Jatory Evans hanged himself inside his jail cell Wednesday while awaiting trial of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree infanticide.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• Adult females as well as males sometimes commit infanticide.
  — David Barash, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024