Example sentences for: crime

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

  • He has also confessed to shooting Vernon E. Jordan, then president of the National Urban League, in 1980, a crime for which he was acquitted in 1982.

  • --The term "hate crime" doesn't get at what I think is the real issue: that certain kinds of crimes are not just aimed at a particular victim but are meant to intimidate or "send a message" to a whole class of people, whether to stay out of certain neighborhoods, hide their sexuality, stop performing abortions, or whatever.

  • In that case--again, according to the usual cost-benefit criterion--my gun is a bad thing; it costs $100 and only reduces total crime by $75.

  • He is credited with much of the city's crime drop.

  • Cemetery buries crime victim every 2 days.


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