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How to use murderous in a sentence

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Morning rush hour traffic was murderous at the best of times, and with something like this going on it was not moving at all.
His support for the most murderous policies of the ruling elite is nothing new.
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.
The murderous vendetta lasted years and involved disputes over a razorback hog and various other affronts to family dignity.
Where is the ethical norm that stipulates resistance against murderous force without any concern for one's own security?
What we are seeing in the world today is a product of this murderous imperialist policy.
Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
If you were living under that kind of vile, murderous dictatorship, would you not want someone to come in and save you?
The glances it gets on these rustic streets are more murderous than any it might garner from the fashionistas in Milan.
After a few careless moves in the opening Black develops a murderous attack.
Why not call the police brutal, sadistic or even murderous when they act that way?
He notes that Carew, though a murderous Machiavel, never betrayed his sworn allegiance as the rebel chieftains did.
In her hands she held an axe, the thick handle made of reddish wood, and the head a rusted silver, with a sharp, murderous blade.
Event after event causes Philip to wonder whether Rachel is a scheming murderous or grossly maligned woman.
It is set during the early Qing Dynasty, and Gordon Liu plays a man on the run after murderous Manchu oppressors kill his family.
The urchin got up a second time with the murderous expression of a dog scenting blood.
The choice was therefore to leave a murderous dictator in power or to remove him by force.
The look of murderous, seething fury on my face must have finally sunk into his thick bovine head, because he turned and left.
If necessary, the murderous self-murderer can even make do without such second-hand justifications altogether.
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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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