How to Use homicide in a Sentence

homicide

noun
Definition of homicidenext
Synonyms for homicidenext
  • The number of homicides increased last year.
  • He has been arrested for homicide.
  • There have been 595 homicides in the state through March of this year.
    — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
  • The death marked Berkeley’s third homicide of the year.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Burnett’s death marks the 27th homicide in Pine Bluff this year and first in 38 days.
    — I.c. Murrell, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Most of the homicide victims died in shootings both years.
    — oregonlive, 31 May 2023
  • The pace of homicides in Portland in 2023 now matches that of last year at this same point.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive Public Safety Team, oregonlive, 5 July 2023
  • The list will be updated throughout the year, with the most recent homicides at the top.
    — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2024
  • His lawyers have said their client wasn't in the home where the homicides occurred and was driving around alone that night.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The baby girl’s death was ruled a homicide, police said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Cops on Monday night said he’d been deemed the victim of a homicide — but the youth’s mother said that was wrong.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
  • The Penn-North site went a without a single homicide for the calendar year.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
  • See the table below to learn who was killed so far in 2024, where the homicide happened and whether arrests were made.
    — Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In each of the two years after New Mexico’s red flag law took effect in 2020, the city logged a new homicide record.
    — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • The roster only showed the first-degree homicide charge.
    — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2023
  • The manner of his death was later determined to be a homicide.
    — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 9 July 2024
  • The slaying comes as the city continues to grapple with crime, with 19 homicides so far in August, 16 of which occurred in the first six days of the month.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Police were not able to determine which of the two teens fired the fatal shot, but brought first-degree homicide charges against both of them.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
  • Cleveland could surpass 192 total homicides, the most in years.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Memphis in November broke its record for homicides in a year.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Of those deaths, nearly three-quarters were by suicide and just over a quarter were homicides.
    — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
  • There had been a surge of pessimism about Allen since the winter because homicides and carjackings spiked in his ward.
    — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Salazar said the first inclination is to assume a homicide.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 July 2023
  • The city sees only a few dozen homicides each year, compared to several hundred in New York.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 3 June 2023
  • Police data shows homicides in both cities have fallen compared with the same time last year.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Rouse has said that Norton’s death is the only unsolved homicide in Kotzebue.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Steve Cercone: At this time, there was no question that the parents were the suspects in the possible homicide of a little girl from 1981.
    — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Trump has seized on Morin’s homicide to attack Biden’s border policies.
    — Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
  • The killing was the 10th homicide in Kansas City, Kansas this year, according to police data.
    — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
  • The big picture: Phoenix is contributing to a downward trend in homicide nationally.
    — Jessica Boehm, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024

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