Example sentences for: convicted

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

  • Suppose you're a convicted Arkansas felon with some juicy private information about the president of the United States.

  • The UPS strike makes everybody's front page, but only leads at USA Today . The Los Angeles Times leads with California's passage of a welfare reform bill that would for the first time ever subject state recipients to strict time limits and work requirements, along with a companion measure that would ban from the rolls for life anyone convicted of a drug felony.

  • Only the wretched Orchard wound up getting convicted, and (following the commutation of his death sentence) he spent the rest of his life in an Idaho penitentiary.

  • But it turns out, reports the paper, none of the more than 13,000 people (mostly convicted felons) stopped so far from buying guns by the FBI's recently instituted instant background check has been arrested, even though trying to buy a gun by lying about one's background is a federal crime.

  • wrongly convicted"?


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