How to Use murderess in a Sentence

murderess

noun
  • Lounge here with a box of chocolates and a pack of cigarettes to channel the vibe of your favorite Columbo murderess.
    Emma Alpern, Curbed, 2 May 2018
  • Your favorite memeable murderess is back for more blood.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe that’s why Gaga’s character fades from view for a while, as though the movie loses its resolve, unable to bridge the endearing outsider and the murderess.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The Lady is less a wilting violet who learns to bloom than, as the title implies, a cunning murderess.
    Charles Taylor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2017
  • The grim landscape painted here makes one wonder why more women didn’t commit more crimes à la murderess Grace Marks.
    Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Watching a hippie murderess get flame-broiled by Rick Dalton might have been the single most delightful moment at the movies this year.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
  • So Kruzan was just considered a child prostitute, and a murderess who robbed and killed her trafficker.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • But now, a new movie starring Chloë Sevigny as the 19th century murderess hopes to tell the story of the woman behind the violent act.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2018
  • People have called Lucrezia many things over the years: seductress, murderess, femme fatale of the Borgia cabal.
    Anne Thériault, Longreads, 28 May 2020
  • Living here will mean living across the street from Jon's parents, who still are convinced Sandra is a murderess who killed their son, and whose family is still grieving.
    Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Watkins’ flair for the dramatic in her coverage of murderesses, women accused of heinous crimes, moved her stories from inside the paper to page one.
    Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The investigative twists and turns are impressive, and the clever use of technology to determine the guilt or innocence of the possible murderess is top notch.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Many arsenic homicide cases became famous, such as the murderess Mary Ann Cotton, who killed three husbands—as well as one fiancé and many of her children and stepchildren—and then cashed in on the insurance.
    Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
  • As Sarah Osborne, the murderess at the center of the story who is executed and publicly dissected, the courageous mezzo-soprano Peabody Southwell spends most of her time on stage as a naked corpse.
    Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
  • From British everywomen and a doting assistant to a flailing sports-agent to merry, musical murderesses, Renée Zellweger's career has been nothing if not out-of-the-box.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 24 May 2019
  • Fredegund was recast as a femme fatale, and Brunhild as a murderess lacking all maternal instinct.
    Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Ross will star as Roxie Hart, the aspiring actress turned murderess, in Broadway’s second longest-running musical.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2022
  • From poverty to servitude to mental asylums to finally a life of dusting the houses of upper class women who think having a celebrated murderess around spices up the tea time conversation, nothing about life has been fair to Grace.
    Lincoln Michel, GQ, 30 June 2018
  • Her Democratic opponent, Felicia French, wasn’t some international drug trafficker or ax murderess, but rather a nurse and veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The logical pick is Garbine Muguruza, who won the previous major (Wimbledon) and the previous big event in Cincinnati, beating a murderesses row of opponents.
    The Si Staff, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Jessica Biel has a complex turn as the titular murderess, a thin veneer of professional suburban housewifery pasted over a deep disdain for her own humdrum life.
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • The hilarious and oddball Candy Buckley brings the play to another level as Gloria, Sheila’s hardened and manipulative murderess mom.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • At other moments, Acker stresses discontinuity: a murderess’s hallucination is interrupted, mid-sentence, by a parenthetical reflection on a humiliating affair.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022

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