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

Both "Front" and "Assassins" taught me that history is alive, still happening.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021

In the last decade attempts like Halo: Forward Unto Dawn, Street Fighters Assassins Fist and Dragon Age: Redemption have been released online but didn't make a lasting impression.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2021

They weren’t even in the Assassins Guild—not that Arobynn Hamel would ever allow them in.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas