Use "in cold blood" in a sentence

1. “There are some crimes for which the high priestess will sentence someone to death, killing a defenseless child in cold blood for instance

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2. God in cold blood!' shouted Tours, losing his patience

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3. He murdered my brother in cold blood – if he had played on that, the public would have hated him, but he pretended that it hurt him and now everybody loves him

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4. If she couldn’t bring herself to assassinate a murdering assassin, she doubted she could kill anybody else in cold blood either

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5. Sespian could not imagine killing anyone in cold blood, whether they were Hollowcrest’s lackeys or not, but

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6. An elderly gentleman approached me in shock and said he tried to help the “detective” arrest one of the victims but the “detective” just shot the man down in cold blood

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7. A shoot-out occurred between them and the Bophuthatswana Police (mostly black policemen), who then also executed three right wingers in cold blood as they lay wounded on the ground

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8. Insofar as atrocities go: The terrorists shot down two civilian airliners with their Strela missiles and killed the survivors in cold blood afterwards! It caused shock and outrage and happened with flight RH 825 on 3 September 1978 and flight RH 827 on 12 February 1979

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9. “If you captured him, would you have killed him in cold blood?” Sakahaji asked

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10. Even himself, a man who had killed another man in cold blood, without guilt or the evidence of conscience, could be made to see God in this place

11. “And shooting a child in cold blood is a terrible crime that cannot go unpunished

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12. The hit would have been fatal for her; I couldn't bring myself to kill her in cold blood

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13. In 1993, Colin Ferguson, a Jamaican Black, opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol on a commuter train in New York, killing six people in cold blood

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14. He certainly was not concerned about killing a man in cold blood; in fact he had experienced an adrenalin rush at the time

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15. Someday the Death Penalty will be abolished when we realize that people that murder other people in cold blood are mentally ill and need treatment--not execution

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16. His mind had settled the issue; Diego Olivera killed his wife in cold blood then torched his house while his children slept

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17. “You killed his two sons in cold blood…”

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18. It was you, Vasquez, you murdered those innocent children and their beautiful mother not Olivera then you shot his two sons in cold blood to cover your guilt

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19. “The Hitler Youth recruitment poster looked down on me from several platforms away but I instantly recognized the young face on the poster, without any doubt the boy on the poster had become the officer who shot my two brothers in cold blood

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20. “Yes I was my two brothers and two close friends were slaughtered by an SS officer in cold blood

21. Curra looked at Rachel and said, “You jumped in my shit for not telling the truth and you just killed a woman in cold blood

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22. In Cold Blood, 15,

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23. believe that you'd kill a human being in cold blood

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24. had no intention of being gunned down in cold blood

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25. Elizabeth sighed as though annoyed by his inability to comprehend her insinuation then stated clearly, “Because he murdered Faye in cold blood

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26. Was that enough to inspire her to kill in cold blood, or was there another hidden motive that may have driven her to commit the crime in this complex fashion?

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27. suspicion should be placed upon one than another; though he sensed the killer would be much too clever, especially after having ruthlessly murdered two individuals in cold blood, to betray himself with his behaviour, Feltus had hoped he would witness a nervousness, perhaps in the guilty party’s eyes or hands that trembled uncontrollably, that could shed some light upon the true sentiments of an elusive criminal who was slowly being roped into the law’s clutches

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28. “Tolteca, the plans that we made for our next ambush have also been disclosed to the Teoti by this traitor, he was deliberately, in cold blood, sending another eighty of his kinfolk to their deaths

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29. never taken Foster as the type who’d kill a man in cold blood, he’d

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30. Many of the crewmembers murdered by the pirates could not have possibly represented a threat to them, yet had been killed in cold blood like the rest, while sleeping

31. murdered a man in cold blood before, and Breckenridge hoped that

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32. kill me in cold blood

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33. I would not try passing around that barrage if I were you: those soldiers killed in cold blood a poor shepherd who objected too loudly to their taste to the barrage and to them taking two of his sheep

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34. "And who's going to kill this man in cold blood

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35. own was shot down in cold blood

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36. For a moment, Nancy felt like being Karl Beck as she killed in cold blood both men in the room

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37. He killed him in cold blood

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38. In cold blood, you murdered the security guards who caught you

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39. So, Gerald killed Dale in cold blood

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40. gold and life-everlasting had he not killed the man in cold blood

41. I mean, who do you think killed the Grandt family in cold blood?

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42. It was one thing to defend yourself against attack, but quite another to kill a helpless creature in cold blood or whatever flowed through it

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43. Before long, the initial euphoria of the Hindu-Muslim bhai-bhai, occasioned by their Bengali sense of gratitude, gave way to the Indian animosity brought to the fore by their Musalman upbringing on the staple diet of Hindu hatred, which goaded them to murder their own savior, Mujibur, perceived to be India friendly, and to wipe out his kith and kin in cold blood to boot

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44. Cold boys are as cold as steel and can be deadly in cold blood

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45. Tolerance reminds us in humans while hatred views wild animals calculating to kill in cold blood without serious charges

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46. Heroes have no empathy and Moses was one, the rapist of a child and the killer in cold blood

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47. “You thought I killed your parents in cold blood and there were still moments in which you nearly begged me to devour you

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48. In cold blood, he set fire to the wood!

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49. Killing a man in cold blood had never occurred to him

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50. Joe shot him in cold blood, trapped him in a corner

51. He murders them in cold blood

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52. “I couldn’t,” said Tom, “I couldn’t just do it in cold blood

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53. How could he in cold blood murder an innocent person, someone he did not even know, for no reason, and then say she, they, were to blame

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54. It was either act to defend himself or be murdered in cold blood

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55. Also, in South Africa recently the world-famous paralympian, Oscar Pistorius had been accused of gunning down his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in cold blood on Valentine’s Day

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56. A judge will decide if she murdered them in cold blood while she was fully conscience, or she did killed them when she was not in full control of her faculties

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57. And what’s with this little killer that she once called her son—the one who ruined everything? The whole family could’ve been rich with gold and life-everlasting had he not killed the man in cold blood

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58. The next day in the paper, it read that a mob had taken the three zombies and murdered them in cold blood on the courthouse lawn

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59. � Very few students and others have told me that they could hit their child, "in cold blood

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60. He urges anyone who tells to be killed in cold blood

61. This is the great difficulty of working from studies; it is so easy to lose those little points in your drawing that make for vitality of expression, in the process of copying in cold blood

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62. In fact the alternative solution--killing him in cold blood--was as absurd to her as it was to Darren

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63. She prayed for the poor bus driver who was shot in cold blood right before her very eyes

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64. 'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men

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65. The general yielded to the viceroy's request, for revenge is not easily taken in cold blood

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66. had spurned the proposal in cold blood

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67. Despite the fact that they’d run over a woman in cold blood

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68. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart

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69. "Surely there are details in her story which, if we looked at it in cold blood, would excite our suspicion

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70. But she was upset by the idea of killing the rabbit in cold blood

71. It was one thing to knock the soldiers over with their muskets in their hands, and it was another to stand by while men were being killed in cold blood

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72. Now, from the window of the bookshop on the corner, pyramids and campaniles of In Cold Blood taunted him, along with a propped-up photograph, like a French postcard, of the author recumbent on a dark divan

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73. From here until eternity, he would be able to look in the mirror and see the author of In Cold Blood

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74. There was a clause in his magazine contract that allowed him to republish his pieces in book form, and ever since In Cold Blood he’d oscillated between certainty that what he wrote wasn’t fit for bathroom reading and imagining how it would look in hardcover

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75. We interrogated Annette Breiling for several hours, and then this revolutionary, this terrorist, this person who could shoot the vice president in cold blood, she cracked

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76. One journalist had written that Twilly was picking up where Truman Capote left off with In Cold Blood, noting that Twilly had a rare talent for getting into the minds of killers, humanizing them so that readers regarded the killers almost as friends

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77. The same could be said for Dickie Hickock and Perry Smith, the white-trash punks Truman Capote immortalized in his book In Cold Blood

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78. Gasping, covered in sweat, I sat with my back to the wall by the toilet, wondering if I should just call Sampson where Mulch could hear me and openly declare war on the coward who’d just executed a ninety-one-year-old woman in cold blood

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79. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that he is one who should be deeply distrusted

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80. "Surely there are details in her story which, if we looked at in cold blood, would excite our suspicion

81. "How, then, does it happen," resumed my judge, "that the officer and gentleman be the only one pardoned by the usurper, while all his comrades are massacred in cold blood? How does it happen, also, that the same officer and gentleman could live snugly and pleasantly with the rebels, and receive from the ringleader presents of a 'pelisse,' a horse, and a half rouble? What is the occasion of so strange a friendship? And upon what can it be founded if not on treason, or at the least be occasioned by criminal and unpardonable baseness?"

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82. It must not be thought, moreover, that all of these stories were told with indifference and in cold blood

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83. It rarely happened, as I have already said, that the prisoner approached the fatal moment in cold blood, even if he had been beaten several times before

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84. This confirmation of the refusal in cold blood at once quenched all the doubts in Nekhludoff’s bosom, and brought back the serious, triumphant emotion he had felt in relation to Katusha

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85. One can scarcely view, in cold blood, this reckless waste of fine talent

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86. Such has been the fact in many places on our frontier since the battle of Tippecanoe; and such was the melancholy fact near the Ohio river, in Indiana, when upwards of twenty persons were horribly murdered in cold blood, without the opportunity of resistance; the most of these unfortunate victims were women and children, whose heads were roasted by the fire, and in this cruel mode tortured to death, and under circumstances which would blacken and dye with deeper disgrace the most infamous and abandoned set of beings on earth

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