Example sentences for: convicted

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

  • After all, we are not going to put every convicted adult and juvenile felon behind bars and keep him or her there--nor should we.

  • The NYT says that he is probably the youngest murderer convicted as an adult this century.

  • He was acquitted on manslaughter charges but convicted of obstruction for destroying a videotape of an earlier part of the flight.

  • The Los Angeles Times goes with a Syracuse University study showing that federal prosecutions of gun cases have recently dropped by a third and that convicted criminals are serving less jail time.

  • Jim Tucker, a convicted felon (William Safire, NBC's Meet the Press ; Robert Novak, CNN's Capital Gang ).


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