homicide

Example Sentences

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Had five students done what a veteran homicide detective had failed to do more than 30 years earlier?

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

She spoke with a homicide sergeant named Blake Ritchie.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

He later mislabeled the dashcam footage, which kept it out of the homicide file.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

So while soccer is part of the book’s narrative, the memoir is as much about the sport as “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about avian homicide.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

In the state system, less than 3 percent of new court commitments to state prison typically involve people convicted of homicide.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander