Sentence examples for merely murder from inspiring English sources
Had he begun slicing up this labyrinth of discord, he'd merely murder the creatures trapped within it.
This was not merely murder for greed and profit, but apparently for something as affectless as convenience – families destroyed for the sake of a car.
One of the books featuring Heyer's characters, Death in the Stocks, was dramatized in New York City in 1937 as Merely Murder.
In Runyonland, you end up "dead as door-nails" or "guzzled" never merely murdered.
AND the white mobs did not stop at merely murdering their victims.
Incidentally, despite ministers' having earlier said the cost would be prohibitive, the Treasury calculated the total cost of helping Pike and the others, and the families of those who had been not merely maimed but murdered, at only £3.8m.
For example, we seem to blame those who have murdered more than we blame those who have merely attempted murder, even if the reason for the lack of success in the second case is that the intended victim unexpectedly tripped and fell to the floor just as the bullet arrived at head-height.
To qualify as a crime against humanity, rather than as merely common murder, rape or assault, the violence must be part of a widespread or systemic pattern.
"It was clearly permitted when the Eighth Amendment was adopted (not merely for murder, by the way, but for all felonies — including, for example, horse-thieving, as anyone can verify by watching a Western movie).
"It was clearly permitted when the Eighth Amendment was adopted (not merely for murder, by the way, but for all felonies including, for example, horse-thieving, as anyone can verify by watching a Western movie).
