Examples of 'heat of passion' in a sentence

Meaning of "heat of passion"

refers to a state of intense emotional arousal, often resulting in impulsive or irrational behavior. It typically describes situations where individuals act without clear thinking or self-control due to strong emotions like anger, love, or excitement. The phrase is commonly used in legal proceedings to determine responsibilities or consequences of actions committed in such emotional states
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  • An outburst of anger that leads one to commit a criminal act, and is itself influenced by preceding events that might cause a reasonable person to lose self control.

How to use "heat of passion" in a sentence

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But he might not be in the heat of passion.
This was a heat of passion murder.
Whatever happened happened in the heat of passion.
Kills in a heat of passion caused by that extreme frustration.
Stab wounds inflicted in the heat of passion.
When the heat of passion disappears.
Yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion.
In the heat of passion critical thinking is not possible.
Cheri flushed with the heat of passion.
Kills in the heat of passion resulting from that provocation.
As their bodies coalesced in the heat of passion.
In the heat of passion is not the time to be surprising her.
Kind of like the heat of passion.
In the heat of passion one of them will roll over on you.
You were acting in the heat of passion.

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You act in the heat of passion and rush to your death.
Which means it was either temporary insanity or heat of passion.
All in the heat of passion.
Voluntary manslaughter generally is a killing in the heat of passion.
This was not heat of passion.
The heat of passion is on.
Carried away in the heat of passion.
Heat of passion.
Killing must have been in the heat of passion.
I am afraid in the heat of passion one of them will roll over on you.
A lot of crimes can be done in the heat of passion.
If she killed in the heat of passion and you can prove it.
If defamatory remarks are made in the heat of passion.
The defense wants to prove heat of passion but this is where it gets tricky.
I just got kind of carried away in the heat of passion.
No, it was not the heat of passion that made me say it.
I may have said some things in the heat of passion.
Does the heat of passion make me so hot?
If we could show heat of passion.
However, the heat of passion and cooling are subjective factors.
We know this was heat of passion.
The heat of passion can mitigate murder, but not attempted murder.
Made in the heat of passion.
They think we gonna forget all of that in the heat of passion.
It was the heat of passion.
With hunger and flooded his veins with the heat of passion.
Was it just the heat of passion that made you say it?
In case she loses control and bites his jugular in the heat of passion.
They did not strike in the heat of passion but for money.
Soon the heat of passion returns, as the males risk the cold to mate.
It has to be in the heat of passion.
Normally, heat of passion means a flash of rage or that the defendant somehow lost control.
We were in the heat of passion.
Voluntary manslaughter, on the other hand, involves a homicide committed in the heat of passion.
I was not in the heat of passion.

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