Example sentences for: crime

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

  • One's outrage over some disastrous contretemps is alleviated somewhat by the culprit's risible attempts to explain away the circumstances of his crime in pidgin.

  • To that degree Columbine was also a hate crime.

  • The special issue on "Crime and Punishment" contains more of the former than the latter.

  • A legal and institutional environment that facilitates the development and enforcement of contracts and discourages crime and corruption may also contribute to economic growth.

  • A black man in Louisiana, whose report of the alleged crime was picked up in the national press and was being investigated as a hate crime (after the recent murder in Texas), has admitted he fabricated the story.


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