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Example sentences for "committed suicide"

  • If I do like it, I will say: "Sit down; stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.

  • Of course I intended to be understood--and the language is clear--that there could be no thought except through the impressions made upon the brain by nature through the avenues called the senses.

  • One of the best men I ever knew, with an affectionate wife, a charming and loving daughter, committed suicide.

  • If a strong man should allow a few little children to hack him to death with knives when he could easily have brushed them aside, would we not say that he committed suicide?

  • He should have added that Mr. Newgate, after having reached a mellow old age, was suddenly converted, joined the church, and died in the odor of sanctity on the very day that his victim committed suicide.

  • If he seriously wished the world to take it for granted that Graham Patterson had committed suicide, he must not be found in the same compartment.

  • I have, or, rather, had, only one uncle, and last night he committed suicide in the Brighton train.

  • Rather than face the music, he committed suicide.

  • It doesn't look as if he had a very pleasant day there, as he committed suicide in the train on the way back to town.

  • Caius Norbanus, of consular rank, being proscribed, when he was taken at Rhodes, committed suicide.

  • He himself informed against Quintus Salvidienus, who was forming a villanous combination against Caesar, who, having been condemned, committed suicide.

  • Having been convicted of extortion, he committed suicide (Cicero, De Legibus, i.

  • He committed suicide by drowning himself in the Nile (A.

  • Thereupon he committed suicide in the mistaken belief that Cleopatra had already done so (30 B.

  • In June the Tien Wang, seeing his cause was hopeless, committed suicide, and the capture of Nanking by the imperialist troops shortly afterwards brought the Taiping revolt to a conclusion.

  • Soon afterwards, however, some doubt was cast upon this story; a war of words ensued between Prance and others, and it was freely asserted that Godfrey had committed suicide.

  • An individual, he says, committed suicide in Paris.

  • It was under the influence of this over-excited state of brain that he committed suicide.

  • A respectable Scotch merchant, near Pimlico, committed suicide by cutting his throat.

  • The possibility that her husband had committed suicide, or that any one could suppose that he had committed suicide, had never entered her head.

  • And a few days before he committed suicide--" "Committed suicide?

  • But why should Lord Loudwater have committed suicide?

  • The Piso whose praise is sung is without doubt Calpurnius Piso, the rich and influential man who headed the conspiracy against Nero and committed suicide in 65 A.

  • Unable to bear his troubles, he committed suicide at the age of 43 years.

  • Jerome's statement that Lucretius was insane and committed suicide is not in itself improbable.

  • Thapsus, in Africa, and their leader, Cato, committed suicide at Utica.

  • Octavius pursued Antony to Egypt, where the latter, deserted by his army, and informed by a messenger from the false queen that she was dead, committed suicide.

  • In two successive engagements the new levies of the liberators were cut to pieces, and both Brutus and Cassius, believing the cause of the republic forever lost, committed suicide.

  • He fled to Syria, and thence to Asia Minor, where, to avoid falling into the hands of his implacable foes, he committed suicide by means of poison (183 B.

  • Eight of the decemvirs were forced to go into exile; Appius Claudius and one other, having been imprisoned, committed suicide.

  • He procured considerable evidence in support of his claim, but in 1882, and while still endeavoring to furnish further proof, he committed suicide by hanging.

  • It is conceded that he committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol.

  • Charles Yorke was indeed induced to take it in spite of his former political connections, but, overwhelmed apparently by the coldness of his former friends, he committed suicide.

  • Lord Londonderry was preparing to attend the Congress at Verona when his health and reason gave way and he committed suicide.

  • He was tried by court martial, and, unable to face the prospect of a slur on his professional character, committed suicide.

  • You receive notice that one of your friends has died; he committed suicide.

  • These conditions, so creditable to Li Kweiching, were granted; but, at the funeral of his late sovereign, grief or a spirit of duty so overcame him that he committed suicide on the grave of Tsongching.

  • Heang Yung, taking his misfortune too deeply to heart, committed suicide, and thus deprived the emperor of at least a brave officer.

  • The garrison was massacred to a man, Yuen Yingtai, brave, if incapable, committed suicide, and those of the townspeople who wished to save their lives had to shave their heads in token of subjection.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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