Example sentences for: convicted

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

  • Both parties support the drug war and its attendant police-state apparatus--no-knock raids, forfeiture of property of people who haven't been convicted of anything, Draconian sentences, peeing on command as a requirement for getting or holding jobs, etc.--the latest thing is they want to inflict on Florida a genetically engineered fungus that's supposed to kill marijuana plants, although no one can guarantee it won't be an ecological disaster; these people are crazy!

  • If convicted, the officer could receive a dishonorable discharge and almost four years in prison.

  • The NYT and LAT off-leads and inside stories elsewhere report that the governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, a proponent of capital punishment, commuted the death sentence of a convicted murder to life in prison without parole after the pope, during his recent visit to St. Louis appealed directly to him to "show mercy" in the case.

  • What's inexcusable is that Toobin waits 100 pages to mention that a) Kirkland is a convicted forger; who b) had had "five, six, seven, eight even" beers the night in question; and c) hadn't actually seen Jones give the serial blow jobs to his friends.

  • It also reported Friday that Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi has asked her country's president to commute a death sentence of one of four people convicted of assassinating her husband, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, because she was the mother of a small child.


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