Example sentences for: allegation

How can you use “allegation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On Meet the Press , Susan Estrich fumed that those who dared to pursue the question would "tear people's lives apart based on a plausible allegation."

  • Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) lays out the president's winning strategy: "Deny" the allegation that Monica Lewinsky fellated him; "delay" the nation's judgment of the crisis; and "attack" his foes, mostly special prosecutor Kenneth Starr but also the alleged "right-wing conspiracy," the press, and Lewinsky herself.

  • Clinton's lawyer denies the allegation, but the White House refuses to say where Clinton was on the day in question.

  • The Term Paper Artist does earn some praise, though, for its playful reference to another crisis in Leavitt's life: the British poet Stephen Spender's allegation that Leavitt plagiarized Spender's memoirs in an earlier novel.

  • All three of the big dailies working today feature front-page stories about Time/CNN's retraction of its allegation that nerve gas was used against American defectors by U.S. troops in Laos in 1970, with considerable additional coverage inside.


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