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Example sentences for "homicidal"

Lexicographically close words:
homeward; homewards; homework; homey; homicida; homicide; homicides; homiletic; homiletical; homilies
  1. Gall narrates the case of a certain Petri, who manifested homicidal tendencies when excited by alcohol.

  2. Among Oriental sects of murderers, as is well known, homicidal fury was excited and maintained by a drink brewed for the purpose from hemp-seed.

  3. Is it possible to deduce any order out of such homicidal chaos?

  4. Evidently the lover and his mistress concluded that the photographer bore a charmed life, for they made no further homicidal attempts.

  5. At first sight he recognized him as a famous crook who had served five years for a homicidal assault!

  6. If our homicide statistics related only to the white population of even the second generation born in this country we should find, I am convinced, that we are no more homicidal than France and Belgium, and less so than Italy.

  7. But I think homicidal things all the same, and I rejoice that in the safety of print I can cry out against the despot, whom I have not the presence to defy.

  8. He had an air at once fierce and sad, and a half-barbaric, homicidal gentility of manner fascinating enough in its way.

  9. Most murder," he had said, "is a variation of homicidal mania, and in the same way most theft is a version of kleptomania.

  10. There was not a shred of evidence pointing to the solution, and, except that the police knew him to be a homicidal maniac, there was not a single person in a city of several millions whom they could call the murderer.

  11. The fact that two of the five victims had been men, according to Carse's theory, belied the popular suspicion that the criminal was a homicidal sadist.

  12. In most cases, however, such a state of mind develops into actual insanity with a homicidal tendency.

  13. A larger dose produces strong homicidal tendencies and inevitable death, and a still larger dose almost instantaneous death.

  14. The duke smiled indulgently, yet with a homicidal preoccupation.

  15. I've no homicidal traditions in my family," Gage explained.

  16. For a few moments there was silence as the duke sat immobile; confident in, as it were, the cloak of homicidal tradition in which he had wrapped himself.

  17. She never gave us a hint she'd got a bald Beelzebub with a voice that sends you the jumps and a homicidal history that gives you the shivers--to say nothing of that sickening revolver.

  18. Even a Spanish duke of vindictive and homicidal idiosyncrasies could scarcely have the face to murder him coolly in a room before four non-accessory witnesses.

  19. Thus, it is directly homicidal to practise embryotomy (i.

  20. Pope Innocent XI condemned the teaching that one may use homicidal defense to protect a coin or the prospect of receiving an office.

  21. You could walk along the main thoroughfares without the sensation that you were steering your way through scurrying, erratic, homicidal pedestrians.

  22. The victim of homicidal impulse is, to all outward appearances, perfectly sane otherwise.

  23. The victim of homicidal impulse kills without any ulterior object, while the sadist kills in order to gratify his unnatural and perverted sexual appetite.

  24. Again, we are told that he was suddenly seized with an attack of homicidal impulse, and tried to kill David.

  25. Homicidal impulse is the most dangerous to society of the many mental vagaries and derangements which afflict the dwellers in the borderlands.

  26. Some alienists declare that homicidal mania is frequently only a masked epilepsy.

  27. This man was either a sadistic sexual pervert, or a victim of homicidal impulse.

  28. In spite of his chivalrous attitude towards the homicidal faculty, the Colonel was not optimistic in regard to the baser pecuniary interests of his fellow-man.

  29. If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous.

  30. My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind.

  31. The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.

  32. He looked so hostile that I thought he was in for another homicidal fit, so I blew my whistle.

  33. He moved towards me so quickly that for the moment I feared that he was about to make another homicidal attack.

  34. Homicidal wounds are usually more directly transverse, and are of equal depth throughout.

  35. The patient must be carefully nursed and constantly watched, as homicidal and suicidal impulses are liable to occur under the terrifying influence of the hallucinations.

  36. Whatever Germany may think of the Hohenzollerns, the world outside Germany regards them as the embodiment of homicidal nationalism.

  37. The different tendencies of homicidal mania in different individuals are often only nursed into action when the current of the blood has been poisoned with alcohol.

  38. Abruptly, with a gesture of almost homicidal fury, the Brazilian darted out of sight.

  39. He was bright enough, and more select in his choice of recreations, at least during school hours, than my late homicidal neighbor.

  40. It had, as Birnier had calculated that it would, struck zu Pfeiffer upon the most tender spot in his mental anatomy, evoking a homicidal mania which dominated his consciousness.

  41. No other reason could account for the homicidal intentions displayed.

  42. She has been so ever since the homicidal frenzy which seized her on that fatal night, and I have now taken her beneath my charge, for with me she is as docile as a child.

  43. He might have told you that Bridget was a homicidal maniac; what he does tell you is that she was faithful.

  44. You will know that he was a bachelor, living with his sister Mary, who was subject to homicidal mania.

  45. But she had never expected to prove the faith that was in her by such a homicidal act on her own part.

  46. No one would have imagined that that soft breast could conceal a homicidal thought.

  47. Sarteur was released from the asylum, but the cure was not permanent, for a few months afterwards the unfortunate man became conscious of a return of his homicidal mania, and, to prevent its operation, hanged himself.

  48. The arrangements were completed when Lantier was seized with one of the homicidal frenzies to which he was subject, and it was Severine herself who fell under his knife instead of their intended victim.

  49. He was afflicted with homicidal mania, and was confined for a time in the asylum at Tulettes.

  50. In our twenty-second century civilization such homicidal inclinations are quite rare, due to the law-abiding habits of generations under the Interplanetary Council.

  51. You would put it that way," sneered Truesdale; "you're homicidal at heart anyway!

  52. With nerves twittering and muscles tensely set, I was ready to become a homicidal maniac at the snapping of a twig or the rolling of a pebble down the hillside.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homicidal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bloodthirsty; bloody; cruel; cutthroat; deadly; fierce; gory; grim; homicidal; murderous; sanguinary; sanguine; suicidal