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How to use murderous in a sentence

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This is a murderous organisation which seeks impossible objectives by the most violent of means.
Again, absent the use of a gun, knife or poison, jurors rarely accepted arguments for murderous intent.
She hobbles out of the curtain with a murderous look on her face and her fist cocked and ready to throw another punch.
He is not some murderous criminal to be brutally dealt with, Uncle Charles.
His support for the most murderous policies of the ruling elite is nothing new.
I can see why that might work in, say, a song about murderous jealousy, but that doesn't seem to be what this song is about.
Il Tabarro was a subtitled drama about forbidden love and murderous jealousy.
The country's military dictatorship is a repressive, democracy-crushing, bloodthirsty, murderous bunch of thugs.
In principle one might expect to find that war was a matter of continuous, violent, and mutually murderous activity.
The murderous vendetta lasted years and involved disputes over a razorback hog and various other affronts to family dignity.
Science and technology were applied to the most murderous ends known to humankind.
If that's not enough for you, then you might take a look at the domains of gynarchy and mysticism of murderous amazons.
That fierce, murderous eloquence does make me wonder whether the rhetoric of modern Islamists is comparable.
To this day he remains chained, madness close to his mind and murderous intentions deep within the recess of his soul.
Things actually become worse when Emily befriends an imaginary friend whose erratic behavior eventually turns murderous.
Frank Horrigan pursues every clue, every scrap of evidence as he fights to pin down Leary and foil his murderous plan.
Not surprisingly, a series of brutal and murderous events left islanders deeply distrustful of outsiders.
If I ever snap and go on a murderous killing spree, it'll be because of this guy.
Determined to avenge her, Marv pursues a violent, murderous course that takes him to the heart of the city's power structure, and seals his fate.
He attributed these tendencies and his cruel, murderous history to his abusive childhood.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Andreas Constantinou, who played Claudius, also looked and sounded like the murderous bad egg he is.
I was sure that he would make an attempt to get me out of the way AT once, and would bring round his murderous weapon for that purpose.
How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions.
The murderous Battle of the Wilderness was just getting under way and the war was still roaring on, piling up the bodies like cordwood.
The fanatic excuses the death of his co-religionist in his murderous attack.
We are officers of the law, and have just returned from the pursuit of two murderous outlaws.
Malbihn saw in the demoniacal visage above him the murderous purpose of the beast.
He was worked up to forget the fiendish prudence he boasted of, and proceeded to murderous violence.
Finally, he starts prophesying in the direction of the murderous and adulterous king, at which point his career reaches its noble and inevitable conclusion.
Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin, one of these sharks almost took poor Queequeg's hand off, when he tried to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw.
She felt like one who had suffered the terror of the onslaught of a murderous footpad only to find out that it was an innocent pedestrian asking the time.
Then, he took up the candle, and shading it with his murderous hand so as to throw its light on me, stood before me, looking at me and enjoying the sight.
The captain had a murderous scar across one of his cheeks, a present from Heidelberg, and I used to think how he must long to have Raffles there to serve the same.
Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps the last man?
He was a slave to himself, which was natural in one with a healthy ego, but he rebelled in ways either murderous or panicky at being a slave to anybody else.
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