Complex sentence: Emily leaves her bath to answer the phone but is attacked in the kitchen by a masked assailant, during their struggle she manages to kill the attacker by stabbing him in the neck with a meat thermometer.
Split into simpler sentences: Emily leaves her bath to answer the phone but is attacked in the kitchen by a masked assailant. During their struggle, she manages to kill the attacker by stabbing him in the neck with a meat thermometer.