Sample sentences for PREMEDITATED

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Definition

to plan or consider before doing — especially of a crime

premeditated murder

a premeditated crime
a deliberate and premeditated policy to exclude minorities
Murder in the first degree—premeditated homicide—is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts.
Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men

premeditated = to plan or consider before doing

bombing of us four days earlier— but oh were they sore over our "premeditated murder.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
A man who premeditates such a crime is silent and keeps it to himself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
'Well, Peter's capacity for rational, planned, premeditated thought is still in its developmental stages.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
His escape is not a premeditated act of egress but a random wandering from home to home, accepting sanctuary and comfort wherever he can find it.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Almighty God! and this goes on—it is systematic, organized, premeditated!
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Now I was going to lie and I had premeditated that lie for several hours.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
He was a stript abstract; an unfractioned integral; uncompromised as a new-born babe; living without premeditated reference to this world or the next.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
I want you to ponder this matter of murder — of first-degree murder, premeditated.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
What he was aiming at, I gathered, was to show that my crime was premeditated.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger
It was a premeditated gesture, calculated to humiliate and terrorize her.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
It's not a matter of premeditated deception.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
As with so many of his misdeeds, this one was not malicious or premeditated.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
A majority of the premeditated ones are usually carried out by someone close to the victim.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
But they were playing for a heavy sentence, and wanted to prove that the assault was premeditated.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Not indeed that they will resist him openly, by well-contrived schemes, or even by a premeditated plan of resistance.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
If Jenks had premeditated these crimes, mapped them out in some early book, it would constitute unimpeachable knowledge.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die

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