5 sentences with 'assassins'
Example sentences and phrases with the word assassins and other words derived from it.
• « From then on, rivalry and assassination remained an essential part of royal intrigue, but it was now carried out by assassins, and royal suitors who were killed were unlikely to be effective even if they survived. »
• « In an incredibly botched assassination, Franz Ferdinand survived a series of attacks, with some of his would-be assassins turning back and running away, others wounding bystanders but missing the archduke, and others losing track of where the archduke's motorcade was. »
• « Finally, by accident, the Archduke's driver got lost and was caught in traffic outside a café where one of the assassins was eating a sandwich. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, took the opportunity to get out and shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife to death. »
• « Hitler was also one of the three 'great' assassins of the 20th century, along with Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union and Mao Tse-Tung of China. »
• « For example, the famous historian Tacitus, in his work "Annals", recounts the funeral honours of Junia, widow of Cassius and sister of Brutus (Caesar's assassins), where everyone noticed the absence of the effigies of the two criminals. »