How to Use homicidal in a Sentence

homicidal

adjective
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  • Is this the end of the Bad Choice Road for the show's charmingest homicidal maniac?
    — EW.com, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The track, which goes into the mind of a homicidal youth named Robert, is the group’s most successful song to date.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Though he might be filled with homicidal rage right now, Five is the new Number One.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • But the bloodiest, most homicidal of more than 1,000 species surveyed is the meerkat.
    — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2016
  • Of course, would-be homicidal maniacs lurk in all kinds of jobs.
    — Rene Chun, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • And, as if sending some dark, raging homicidal message, knives had been left in the victims and around the house.
    — CBS News, 6 May 2017
  • And, as if sending some dark, raging homicidal message, knives had been left in the victims and around the house.
    — CBS News, 2 June 2018
  • The cause of death with regard to the three victims is homicidal violence.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • There is a thin line between a suicide threat and a homicidal suspect.
    — Jim Turner, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Another looks like Boris Karloff, with a homicidal streak to match.
    — Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2017
  • For the most part, these deportees did not choose to come to this city, which is perennially ranked among the world’s most homicidal.
    — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
  • What the audience knows, but Meredith does not, is that Bruce is a homicidal maniac who plans to make the long drive back on his own.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Police said the man was killed by homicidal violence but did not release his cause of death.
    — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The teen has also been charged with concealment of homicidal death and arson.
    — Ella Ceron, Teen Vogue, 13 July 2017
  • These fits of rage are eruptions of a common urge that is also shared by non-homicidal drivers.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 15 Mar. 2023
  • The medical examiner said the death was the result of homicidal blunt force trauma of the head.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2017
  • He was pronounced dead at the scene of homicidal violence.
    — Marc Ramirez, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Experts in policing now say the answer is evolving as lessons are learned from each homicidal spree.
    — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But in the process, El has been reduced to a dissonant mix of heroic self-sacrifice and homicidal rage.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022
  • That means that every Time Lord has a bit of the Doctor in them—including the Master, hence the homicidal rage that led him to destroy his home planet.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2020
  • After a wild amount of near-death experiences, the Pogues had to get their half-billion dollar treasure back from the Camerons and avoid the homicidal crew of a tanker ship.
    — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The elder Figueroa’s boyfriend, Piotr Bobak, 40, has been charged with concealing a homicidal death.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 14 June 2019
  • The cause of death of all four women was determined to be homicidal violence.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 July 2023
  • This is what all visitors see at the entrance to the building where first homicidal gas chambers of Auschwitz was created by the SS.
    — Alana Abramson, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2017
  • Tati Gabrielle, fearsome) is a homicidal villainess who could give James Bond a run for his money.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2022
  • He was pronounced dead from homicidal violence at the scene.
    — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Owens had made homicidal threats on his cell phone and failed to report his brother's involvement in a burglary.
    — Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • In the Amazon Prime film, the British actress plays a woman with a short fuse who has to shock herself to deter her homicidal impulses.
    — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2021
  • Wadsworth presides over the homicidal goings-on like an evil genius, leading the guests on a wild goose chase to solve the mystery of a murder that is only the first of several.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Starring Goth as the titular character, the film takes place in 1918 and follows a young woman who has high hopes of leaving her small town behind to become a big star ... and who also harbors some homicidal tendencies.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 4 July 2024

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