Sample Sentences forpremeditated (auto-selected)
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Murder in the first degree—premeditated homicide—is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts. (source)premeditated = to plan or consider before doing
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There was no deliberate effort to kill, nothing premeditated.† (source)
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A majority of the premeditated ones are usually carried out by someone close to the victim.† (source)
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It was a premeditated gesture, calculated to humiliate and terrorize her.† (source)
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I want you to ponder this matter of murder — of first-degree murder, premeditated.† (source)
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It indicted Williams for first-degree murder—premeditated and with malice aforethought.† (source)
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Couldn't get premeditated on that by itself.† (source)
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I am sure the question was unpremeditated, being inspired by the unusual conditions-and probably by my presence.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpremeditated means not and reverses the meaning of premeditated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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A man who premeditates such a crime is silent and keeps it to himself.† (source)
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In order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it is necessary that Danton should dare it.† (source)
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The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and Thummim): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek): the visit to museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period of time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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First-degree murder is defined as a premeditated act and, in such cases, the state is allowed to seek the death penalty.† (source)
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He was full of pungent and racy vulgarity: he had, more than any of the family, a Rabelaisian earthiness that surged in him with limitless energy, charging his tongue with unpremeditated comparisons, Gargantuan metaphors.† (source)
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It is a charge that suggests a state of mind in which the guilty party premeditates a murder in cold blood.† (source)
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Most addictions aren't premeditated.† (source)
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It was past ten o'clock when Kate Swift set out and the walk was unpremeditated.† (source)
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