Example Sentences

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Starr assumed this was part of a game called Water Assassins that her son, a high school senior, played with his classmates.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

In total, there were at least 42 plots to assassinate Hitler, according to historian Roger Moorhouse in his book “Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2022

There isn't really a central story to "Assassins."

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021

From Sweeney Todd and the president killers of Assassins to the fairy tale-based Into the Woods, his works boasted an audacity, complexity and linguistic dexterity that few of his peers could rival.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2021

She had learned a trick or two from the Assassins over the years, but she’d never be able to disappear into the shadows the way they could.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee