Example sentences for: crime

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

  • “Serious crime down, but murders increase.”

  • Describing the loss of an area the size of Belgium as an "ecological crime," the Paris newspaper said 20,000 Yanomami Indians, members of one of the last great indigenous tribes in the Americas to have preserved their ancestral way of life, are now threatened with starvation because of the fires.

  • Or as a former editor of Harper's once said, it's not what's illegal that's the crime; it's what's legal.

  • In a campaign to discredit church-led human rights investigations, government and army authorities spun the murder as a homosexual crime of passion, resulting in the arrest and (finally abandoned) prosecution of one of the bishop's colleagues.

  • Crime, prostitution, and black-market trading are also said to have become endemic.


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