8 sentences with 'murdered'
Example sentences and phrases with the word murdered and other words derived from it.
• « In 81 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla was made dictator; he greatly strengthened the power of the Senate at the expense of the Plebeian Assembly, had his enemies in Rome murdered and their property confiscated, and then retired to a life of debauchery on his private property (and soon died of an illness he contracted). »
• « In a particularly colourful moment in Bulgarian history, the Bulgarian Khan, Krum, turned the skull of a murdered emperor into a chalice around 810 CE to toast his victory over a Byzantine army. »
• « Two years later, a nationalist poet murdered a conservative, and the Austrian Empire passed laws severely limiting freedom of speech, specifically to contain and restrict the spread of nationalism. »
• « Likewise, the Holocaust of the European Jews murdered some 6 million Jewish civilians deliberately and systematically. »
• « In addition to the murder of the Jews, millions more were killed by the Nazis in the name of their ideology. While estimates vary, at least 250,000 Roma ("Gypsies") were murdered. At least 6,000 homosexual men were murdered. »
• « Many thousands of Nazi ideological "enemies", from Jehovah's Witnesses to various types of political leftists, were also murdered. »
• « In addition, although not normally considered part of the Holocaust per se, nearly 20,000,000 civilians from the Slavic nations - especially Poles and Russians - were murdered by the Nazis in large part because of Nazi racial ideology. »
• « Bobbie was stunned by the news when she cut off communication. Her daughter had trusted these people, who then murdered her - all for $35,000 of insurance. It seemed unbelievable, but she could find no other explanation for her strange death. »